MUS Today Spring 2013 by Andrew Payne

THE MAGAZINE OF MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | SPRING 2013

Memphis Musician Rocks with Timberlake

Developer Reinvents Wounded Vets’ Homes

The Strangers

Replay Music and Memories

Alumni Take Stake

in Grizzlies

The Art of War Photographer Brian McCarty ’92 expresses children’s battle scars through toys

“Resilience” by Brian McCarty ’92 is his interpretation of the remarkable strength of the children in Israel, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and other war-torn

regions. This location in Gaza, surrounded by residential blocks and housing for refugees, had been hit by Israeli aircraft the night before. “The children in these areas exhibit symptoms of psychological trauma from the ongoing conflict,” McCarty said. “Despite this, they go on simply being children as best they can.” Read about how McCarty’s War-Toys Project is helping children express their experience of war, on page 10.

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MISSION STATEMENT Memphis University School is a college-preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence and the development of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, consistent with the school’s Christian tradition.

Making Music with Timberlake War-Toys Project Gives Life to Kids’ Visions Special Homes Welcome Wounded Warriors

HEADMASTER Ellis L. Haguewood

Physician Makes Service a Top Priority

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Robert E. Loeb ’73, Chairman Samuel N. Graham II ’80, Vice Chairman Gary K. Wunderlich, Jr. ’88, Treasurer W. Thomas Hutton ’61, Secretary R. Louis Adams ’70 James F. Burnett ’83 Suki S. Carson Glenn A. Crosby II ’77 Robert M. Fockler ’77 P. Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. ’65 J. Brett Grinder ’91 Ellis L. Haguewood, Ex Officio Mark J. Halperin ’67 Joseph R. Hyde III ’61 E. Carl Krausnick, Jr. ’79 Andrew R. McCarroll ’86 Johnny B. Moore, Jr. Richard C. Moore, Jr. ’63 Joseph M. Morrison ’78 D. Stephen Morrow ’71 Wiley T. Robinson ’75 Chris R. Sanders Frederick C. Schaeffer, Jr. ‘88 Charles F. Smith, Jr. ’66 Owen B. Tabor, Jr. ’85 William E. Troutt ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD Jonathan A. Ballinger ’87, President John B. Barton, Jr. ’95, Vice President Robert I. Abbay IV ’92 Albert M. Alexander, Jr. ’84 Oscar P. Atkinson ’96 G. S. Clark Burrow ’95 Albert B. Carruthers II ’78 Edward J. Dobbs ’89 Jason J. Fair ’89 David J. Frazier ’01 Andrew E. Garrett ’03 Paul T. Gillespie III ’01 Patrick F. Hopper ’89 Joel M. Kaye ’84 Albert E. Laughlin III ’94 Andrew A. McArtor, Sr. ’86 R. Allen McCool, Jr. ’77 Daniel H. McEwan ’88 Gregory H. Meyer ’79 Edward F. Nenon, Jr. ’03 Charles P. Oates III ’77 James A. Robinson, Jr. ’68 Harry E. Sayle IV ’92 Scott S. Sherman ’89 Cleo W. Stevenson, Jr. ’68 John D. Stewart ’78 John M. Summers ’05 William R. Tayloe ’92 Jonathan A. Van Hoozer ’88 Scott D. Williams ’85 Craig H. Witt ’85

Journalist Eases Public Records Requests Alumni Join in Grizzlies Ownership Silicone Product Disguises Skin Flaws Play Dramatizes Surviving School Shootings Bandmates Resurrect Music and Memories

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DEPARTMENTS Headmaster’s Letter Covers From the Archives Alumni Executive Board Honors Student Lauds Faculty News Gifts in Memory and Honor Class News A Thousand Words

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ON THE COVER: Photographer of toys Brian McCarty ’92 has focused his lens on embattled regions of the world to help children express their feelings of war. See the story page 10.

Director of Advancement Perry Dement perry.dement@musowls.org

Director of Alumni and Parent Programs Ann Laughlin ann.laughlin@musowls.org

Public Relations and Social Media – Rebecca Greer Contributing Writers Christopher Blank Erin Floyd Dr. John E. Harkins

Andrew Millen ’08 Cleo Stevenson ’68 Gaye Swan

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Liz Copeland liz.copeland@musowls.org

Graphic Designer – Michael Guthrie

Photography Amanda Clifford Ples Hampton Adam Maldonado Brian McCarty ’92

Andrew Millen ’08 Lance Murphey Joe Murphy Jennifer Robison

Don Shugart Rachael Yarbrough Faith-Ann Young

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It’s a question

pronounced adverse tear duct and olfactory reactions to the microfragrance coating when the surface was scratched and subsequently sniffed.” Once the air cleared and most of the furniture had been repaired or replaced, Liz Copeland, our managing editor, spoke up. With the wealth of engaging stories we have at our disposal, she said, there is no need for gimmicks. As the managing editor, it is her job always to be right. We listened, took notes, and proceeded. This issue of MUS Today features alums who are answering It was once asked of me by Ripley, Tennessee’s own Robert the “encore” question in spades. Brian McCarty ’92, the Drake, Jr. Dr. Drake was a Southern fiction legend – if the subject of our cover story, is using his talent as a photographer kind reader will forgive the redundancy – at least he was in and his vision as an artist to provide the vulnerable and my mind. With his eyes half grinning and half growling over voiceless victims of global conflict a platform to express what the tops of his antique brown designer optical frames he said it is like to grow up in the crossfire of political and religious to me, “Compared to your other stories, this one shows some clashes. With tools and techniques he honed in commercial signs of life.” The closest thing to a compliment I ever received photography, McCarty responded to his encore call and from him. “Now. … What are you going to do for an encore?” pushed through to the next idea. Today his War-Toys Project And that, my friends – as they say in old hardware is gaining international recognition while it helps children stores and barbershops – was that. I had no answer for my cope with the madness of war. For McCarty, his camera is an sentimentalized mentor. I still don’t. instrument of peace. For Elliot Ives ’96, his “What are you going to do for an encore?” instrument is just that – a 1978 Gibson Les It was the question your humble ue iss Paul Custom that he plays on stage with Special 3D editor once again faced when PAID one of the world’s hottest performers, Justin approaching this, my second issue of Timberlake. Encores are just another perk MUS Today. Because you see, when your of the job for Ives. We are also pleased to first issue of a magazine is in 3D, there feature the work of Casey Nolan ’93 who is are only so many more dimensions left developing communities with intelligently to explore – perhaps there are endless customized, accessible homes for American dimensions, but we’re dealing with the men and women wounded in combat. His printed word, not theoretical physics. The Red and is a story of corporate success with a genuine rs During planning meetings the staff Blues Brothe JOIN OUR purpose, fueled by a drive to succeed that N tossed aroundCideas inATanIOeffort to keep the ONVERS he developed, in part, as a member of a cutting-edge momentum going. It was an state champion MUS cross-country team. informative exercise. Details inside. Turns out holograms are still an emerging These are but a few of the stories technology despite theirg/mwidespread use a edia presented in this issue of your magazine. musowls.or long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A popI hope you will enjoy all the articles and Class up center spread of an owl with moveable News updates found herein. I also invite you to participate wings soaring in victory above a purple tidal wave was one of in future issues. If you have a story, an idea for a feature, or my favorite pitches, but it was cost-prohibitive. I suggested a letter you would like our staff to consider for publication, we place the annual fund solicitation in the talons. That please do not hesitate to share your thoughts. didn’t sway anyone in the Development Office. Including Contact me at andrew.payne@musowls.org. scratch-and-sniff images of your Dining Hall favorites was Your voices – not the half-baked, harebrained ideas of an the lead vote-getter, until we focus-group tested the spicy editor – make this publication what it is. We will always do buffalo chicken sandwich photo. There, in the Upper School our best to cover your lives and accomplishments – from conference room, we observed in stunned amazement what opening acts to encore performances. an official report later described as “unexpected negative and

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Headmaster's Message

Financing the Future by Ellis Haguewood

often hear questions about financial aid. Do you give merit scholarships? How does the school determine the amount of aid a family receives? What is the source of the funds? Do you give athletic scholarships? In explaining our tuition assistance program, I generally avoid the word scholarship because it suggests that some special consideration other than need is part of the formula used to grant aid. Our tuition assistance is based solely on a family’s demonstrated financial need, without regard to any special ability a student might possess. There are a few minor exceptions – tuition reduction for faculty and staff, small one-time awards, and Peace Scholars. Sons of PDS teachers and MUS teachers and staff receive a reduced tuition rate, an arrangement that has existed since the 1950s. The top 10 percent of our eighth-grade students, our Springfield Scholars, receive a one-time $1,000 tuition reduction on ninth-grade tuition. When donor-restricted funding is available, a Peace Scholarship can be offered to an exceptionally gifted student who has been recommended through the SLAM summer program. Currently we have three Peace Scholars. Varsity athletes cannot accept one-time awards or the Peace Scholarship. The ability to offer financial aid allows us to accept boys who will most benefit from the MUS experience, without regard to socioeconomic status. Offering financial aid is a long tradition here: We have granted tuition assistance as long as the school has existed, and many outstanding alumni have benefited. If not for financial aid, some very recognizable community leaders would not have been able to attend MUS. When I look at the students who have received tuition assistance over the years, I see Advanced Placement scholars, National Merit Scholarship finalists, math-contest winners, Civic Service Organization leaders, and peer tutors. I see valedictorians and salutatorians, Honor Council and Student Council representatives, theater cast and crew members, Youth Legislators and Model United Nations delegates, yearbook and newspaper editors, and student-athletes in every one of our 14 inter-school sports. Yes, a small number of financial-aid recipients fail to do the work required and leave MUS, but the same is true for students who are not receiving need-based aid. All but a few stay to graduate and add their talents and abilities to an alumni base that provides leadership throughout the Memphis community and the nation. All applicants go through the same process to receive aid – no exceptions – and they repeat that process each year that they are here. The amount of aid a student receives is largely determined by School and Student Services (SSS), an independent agency affiliated with the National Association of Independent Schools in Princeton, NJ. Parents

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apply for aid at MUS by sending their financial information to SSS, which applies a formula to determine what the family “can afford to pay.” Of course, that amount is usually more than the family members think they can pay. The school uses that recommendation, along with a comprehensive review of the family’s tax returns and consideration of any special circumstances, to determine how much aid to offer. We are free to offer less or more than the SSS figure, based on our assessment of a family’s situation, but we prefer to stay close to the recommended amount. If the student is a varsity athlete for a sport governed by the TSSAA, we cannot exceed the SSS recommendation. Before a family can apply for need-based aid, the student must first be admitted to the school. Faculty and staff members on the Admissions Committee assess the applicant’s academic grades, deportment grades, standardized test scores, and teacher recommendations to determine whether a student is suited for the rigors of our curriculum. MUS is able to offer assistance to families because generous patrons have understood the value of need-based financial aid. Years ago the school was the recipient of a charitable lead trust, currently valued at about $11 million, designed to assist students with financial need. Income generated from the fund must be used only for financial aid. In addition, within the school’s general endowment are large restricted funds that generate income for financial aid. A portion of our Annual Fund also goes toward providing need-based aid. For accounting purposes the school does not reduce tuition for the recipient family. Rather, we supplement what the family pays with income from the endowment so that our operating budget reflects full-pay tuition from every student. The need for financial aid has risen sharply over the last decade among families from our traditional feeder schools and elsewhere. It will continue to rise as we seek to recruit excellent students throughout the Memphis area. This year the school granted $2.2 million in needbased financial aid to about 30 percent of the student body. One of the most important strategic goals for the school is to grow our endowment to assure that no portion of our operating budget is ever used for financial aid. Our board has made it clear that MUS will be making intentional efforts to do just that in the near future. We will always seek to be a school that attracts outstanding students, no matter their socio-economic status. For MUS to continue being the leadership institution it has been for decades, we must enroll the kinds of students who 10, 20, 30 years from now will be prepared to lead. Need-based financial aid allows us to extend the opportunity of an MUS education to a greater number of these future leaders.

A Legacy of Excellence and Generosity Col. Ross M. Lynn, headmaster of Memphis University School from 1955 to 1978, wrote eloquently about the role of independent schools and the importance of providing financial aid to deserving students. His words appeared in a booklet, circa 1956, describing the newly opened school and its importance to the community. Following is an excerpt from Lynn’s message: The independent school has played a tremendously important role in the history of our country. Today the independent school is important not only to the people who believe in them but to the nation as a whole. This observation is confirmed by a recent statement of Dr. Arthur Traxler, executive director of the Education Records Bureau: “Although in recent years not more than one boy in a hundred has been educated in the private schools of the United States, those schools … have educated approximately as many leaders as all the public schools combined.” In schools as well as in other walks of life, an increasing premium is placed on conformity. In the world today there is a constant ideological struggle for the mind and souls of our youth. The independent schools assure initiative and diversity. Diversity means versatility and versatility means survival in a constantly changing society. Diversity provides also a guarantee of freedom from political control of education. However, the independent

school is a vigorous complement to the public schools. At Memphis University School the student body is limited in size for the express purpose of enhancing individual diversity, placing emphasis on high academic standards, personal growth, integrity, honor, and emotional and spiritual maturity. To assist in attaining these purposes, small classes will be maintained, close student-teacher relationships encouraged, and a strong emphasis placed on individual responsibility. Boys of varied faiths will be helped in their development as individuals, in activities both friendly and challenging. Such a school will develop leaders. But will only sons of the well-to-do have an opportunity to get the training it offers? No, says Alex Wellford, chairman of the board of trustees. The goal of the present campaign will be to complete the plant. But the next step will be the establishment of scholarships, which will enable outstanding boys to attend the school whose parents could not afford tuition. Thus, Memphis University School will not only train leaders for our democracy. It will be democratic. … When they have numerous scholarships, as MUS eventually will have, the sons of parents of modest means share in the finest thing the rich can give their sons – the best in education.

Below is Hyde Chapel, circa 1963. At right, are the board members Robert Snowden, Col. Ross Lynn, and Alex Wellford. At far right is Col. Ross M. Lynn.

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Elliott Ives rips it up with Justin Timberlake and The Tennessee Kids at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX.

An Eclectic Musical Journey Launches Elliott Ives â&#x20AC;&#x2122;96 into Justin

Elliott Ives ’96 is dead asleep

on a flight from Los Angeles to Memphis when a fellow passenger slaps his arm and wakes him up. “Hey, man, you clean up pretty well,” the guy says, pointing to a photo in The New York Times from the 55th Grammy Awards – a tuxedoed Ives playing guitar behind Justin Timberlake singing his hit “Suit & Tie.”

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by Liz Copeland

A year ago that scenario would have been a dream. Now Ives is living it. Last October he accompanied Timberlake on guitar as he serenaded his bride, actress Jessica Biel, walking down the candlelit piazza aisle at an Italian resort. He has been playing guitar with Timberlake’s bigtalent big band not only at the Grammys but in a marathon of performances this year – Saturday Night Live, a week-long stint on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, London’s Brit Awards, and the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX. He has written music and played on Timberlake’s first album in nearly seven years, 20/20 Experience, and for albums by Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Timbaland, and other artists. This summer Ives will head out with Timberlake and his Tennessee Kids band on the Legends of the Summer Stadium Tour with Jay-Z. The 20/20 Experience World Tour launches in Montreal October 31 and hits nearly two dozen major North American cities – including the Memphis FedExForum November 18 – through mid-February. Rolling Stone magazine’s review of 20/20 Experience singled him out: “When guitarist Elliott Ives steps forward for a rippling solo in ‘Spaceship Coupe,’

it sounds as if Eddie Hazel, the great Parliament-Funkadelic axman, has piloted his mothership into Timberlake’s orbit.” Ives was in a very different orbit a year ago, his “very worst place.” In January 2012 Interscope Records pulled the plug on a finished album for the Memphis-based alternative soul band FreeSol, a project Ives had been working on for four years. The band had been flying high after releasing several singles and music videos produced by and featuring Timberlake. They had even appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and were set to embark on a Canadian tour. Suddenly, it was over. In April 2012 – depressed and still reeling – Ives drove to Atlanta to check out a corporate position. Standing there in his button-down shirt, his long hair slicked back in a ponytail, he looked over rows of cubicles at the employees talking on their phones. And he fought back tears. “I was thinking, ‘I’ve spent too many years playing music and entertaining. I’m a performer. I’ve been doing it all my life – since I was a kid jumping on the bed with a tennis racket,’” he said. “I get in my car and, literally, the phone rings, and it’s Justin’s manager. He says, ‘What are you doing in May?’”

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Elliott Ives visits John Hilt onsmith, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, in the MUS Bloodworth Studio, where a Lord T wig pays tribute to his perform ance/music act Lord T & Eloise.

songs as the film crew captured the process for a documentary. “I lost my mind. That was amazing,” Ives said. “Three weeks turned into five months.” How Ives got into that studio, playing and writing music for arguably the hottest male act of 2013, is a study in talent, dedication, versatility, and professionalism – all rooted, according to Ives, in a liberal arts education. “I’m not the greatest musician in the world by any means, but I have always tried to be professional,” he said. “It has everything to do with learning how people are, and I have to attribute that to what I learned at MUS and Rhodes [College]. A liberal arts education is also the reason I grab from here, from here, from here.” 8

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Cameron Mann ’96, director of the Memphis Music Foundation Music Resource Center and a former bandmate in the crunk rap group Lord T & Eloise, said Ives is able to shine in the studio and onstage because he is a “quadruple threat” – he can play guitar, sing, engineer studio sessions, and write and produce music. “Justin and these producers see that they could leave Elliott in a room to run a session, record vocals, play guitar,” Mann said. “He is a one-stop shop for a number of things you would want or need out of a musician in a studio context.” At the Memphis Music Resource Center, where Mann helps musicians learn about the business of recording, performing, and publishing, he has seen his share of artists who don’t understand the importance of professionalism. “There are unwritten rules of etiquette in the studio and on the road, and Elliott understands all that,” Mann said. “He has been a professional musician since the late ’90s, touring and recording and honing his skills. He was like a sponge absorbing it all.” Even as a freshman at MUS, Ives was getting paid gigs playing with Skycow, which included Hal Bartlett, Duncan Herrington, David King, and Jay Sansing, all Class of ’94. His experience with this band, especially guitarist Sansing, greatly influenced his decision to focus on music. It also boosted his Upper School cool factor. “They were playing clubs like The New Daisy,” Mann said. “It seemed like rock-star level to us lowly sophomores and freshmen at MUS.” His senior year Ives scored two awards at the school talent show – Best Band for From Germany With Love with Sean Conta ’96, Phillip Kimball ’99, Alston Meeks ’99, and Jonathan Scruggs ’99; and Most Talented for a percussion number with Conta and Scruggs. Ives also played lacrosse throughout high school. His entertainment connections came in handy in his role as commissioner of social events on the Student Council. He has fond memories of the camaraderie at MUS and the influence of the faculty. “I always loved the way Dr. Reginald Dalle taught French. He was the most

Photo: Rachael Ya

A month later Ives arrived at Larrabee Studios in North Hollywood, CA, expecting to work with Timberlake producing partner Rob Knox. Indeed, Knox was there but so were Timberlake, producers Timbaland and Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon, and a three-person camera crew. “You’re here to work on my album,” Timberlake said. In a month the group wrote dozens of

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animated person,” Ives said. “I remember JER [Junior English Review] with Mr. [Lin] Askew. He had a great teaching style. He was awesome.” John Hiltonsmith, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, remembers Ives’ standout talent: “I taught him music theory and appreciation, and he in turn taught me the guitar lick to ‘The Ocean’ by Led Zeppelin,” he said, “which I still can’t play.”

After graduation Ives studied

international business and French at Rhodes College, then switched and earned his degree in classical guitar performance. He and Class of ’94 alumni Jeff Burch and Blake Rhea formed a band called CYC (for Cooper Young Cyndicate), which played a blend of rock, funk, hip-hop, and jazz. They signed with CDMemphis, a label started by Tommy Peters ’73 and Norbert Putnam, and the band recorded and toured the southeast for several years. Ives, Burch, and Rhea also formed the blues-tinged Southern metal band Rabid Villain in 2000, and King (aka Burl Caine) joined them later. Wanting to know more about production, Ives began an internship in 2003 at Young Avenue Sound in Midtown, founded by Cameron Mann and his father, Don Mann ’67. Ives got on-the-job training from music engineer Willie Pevear, who had worked with Jimmy Buffett, Reba McEntire, and other artists in Nashville. Soon he had his own set of keys and was engineering for rappers 8Ball & MJG, Al Kapone, and Yo Gotti. “That was like a dream job at 24 years old,” Ives said. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I was totally thrown into the mix.” One day Ives handed his business card to Free, the lead singer of the alternative soul band FreeSol, as he was visiting the studio. A short time later Ives was touring and competing with the band as it won a series of

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regional and national showcase awards. On a video about FreeSol, Ives is branded a oneof-a-kind songwriter, musician, producer, and engineer. “He’s a guru. He’s a genius,” Free said. “He gets hip-hop, he gets urban music, he gets rock, he gets metal. The dude is unbelievably valuable.” “He’s a freak – some of the things that he plays, some of the voicings,” Premo D’anger, bassist/vocalist, said.

In 2006 as the band was driving to Atlanta

to sign with another producer – and move into a downtown Atlanta loft where they would live and record together – Timberlake called offering to give them a better deal with his fledgling Tennman Records. After taking a vote – Ives expressed the minority opinion – they turned the van toward Memphis and headed home. Six months later they had signed a contract with Timberlake, who later helped them secure a deal with Interscope. JT also recorded with the band, hooked them up with big-name producers, and starred in three of their music videos. As FreeSol’s star was rising, Ives got involved in a new musical act, Lord T & Eloise, created with Cameron Mann and an MUS connection from the seventh grade, Robert Anthony (who went to boarding school in eighth grade). “Robert and I were writing songs we thought were funny, and they evolved into characters,” Mann said. “Elliott said he had some music we could put the lyrics to.” Thus, aristocrunk – a new rap genre that parodies wealth and privilege – was born. Its purveyors were fraternal twins Lord T (originally Mann, now Ives), he of powdered

wig and 18th century attire, and Eloise (Anthony), he of gold skin and giant hair rollers. Legend has it that Myster E (Ives) summoned them from the Old World to the New to save rap music. Ives’ contract with Tennman prevented him from performing under his real name, so he wore a fake mustache and sunglasses – “the worst disguise ever,” he said. They recorded at Young Avenue Sound at night, and Ives continued to hone his skills writing music, singing, and producing. Their 2006 video, Million Dollar Boots, went viral, drawing the interest of Nashville booking agent Progressive Global Agency. (Progressive also books acts such as Widespread Panic, R.E.M., and The Police.) Lord T & Eloise went from being a joke among friends to somewhat of a cult phenomenon, playing major music festivals around the country. Actor/comedian Seth Green saw Lord T & Eloise perform and booked them for his wedding. “It’s so much fun,” Ives said. “It’s probably the most fun I’ve had performing.” Mann handed his wig to Ives in 2009, Myster E retired, and Lord T & Eloise continued to record and tour with a revolving cast of characters. They recently played the Wakarusa Festival in Ozark, AR, and a new mixtape is in the works. Anthony is the lyricist for the act; Ives provides the music as well as an exuberant spirit. “Elliott has a gusto for life, and that’s contagious and fun,” Anthony said. “We’ve run a business for years, and he’s a skilled businessman, as well.”

Back in Memphis after the Grammys

and before flying to London for the Brit Awards, Ives is pulled over for an expired car

Elliott Ives, right, and Robert Anthony as crunk rappers Lord T & Eloise

tag – a forgotten detail in his jet-lagged life. Coming home always means catching up with business, friends, and his two Labradors – and catching up on sleep, sometimes in 15-hour stretches. He has put any thoughts of marriage and family – which he wants eventually – on hold. “All I want to do is make music,” he said. Timberlake’s talent, musical knowledge, and relentless work ethic have been an inspiration. “I just have to pay attention and learn from him,” Ives said. “He’s taught me a lot about being confident. When you’re producing, you can’t be indecisive or you wouldn’t finish anything. If you go for it and it’s the wrong move, then write another song.” Next to Ives’ guitars, his iPhone may be his most important instrument, always ready to record beats and rhythms and melodies that spill from his brain at random times. He said he just “hears these things.” Ives will soon be in the studio again, turning those voice memos into music. This summer he begins the stadium tour with Timberlake – a dozen dates in two months – followed by the 22-city album tour. He is still wrapping his mind around it all. “Everything I’ve done has taken me to this point,” Ives said. “It’s amazing I actually have a career in this. It’s something that I’ve stuck with for years and years, through so many highs and lows.” Over the last decade he has been hustling to learn everything he needed to make a living in music – how to engineer, produce, book show dates, manage a band, sell band merchandise. Eventually, he would like to share his experience. “I would like to come back to a place like [Memphis] and help with the business of making music,” he said. “There are so many frickin’ great musicians who can’t get off their feet. With all the viral business and everyone giving away records, I almost think we need a publicity house where we hire the best publicists. It’s all a story.” In his own rock-rap-soul story, Ives is still watching this latest chapter unfold, still schooling himself on the world of music. All along he continues to “rip it down,” according to his Twitter tagline, “as hard as possible in every scenario imaginable.”

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Through His Lens, Brian McCarty â&#x20AC;&#x2122;92 Helps Children Express the Scars of Battle by Liz Copeland

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A little boy wishing for superhero elastic arms to snatch missiles from the sky. A young girl coloring pools of blood in vivid crayon-red. A refugee child describing his father’s death from an air strike and his family’s search for the remains.These are the children who compel Brian McCarty ’92 to continue his War-Toys Project – a combination of art therapy and McCarty’s interpretive photography, which helps the young artists express their experience of war.

McCarty, who has made a name for himself with perspective-bending toy photography, is focusing his lens on battle-scarred settings around the world, beginning with Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Enlisting the help of humanitarian organizations and art therapists, he has connected with children in the Middle East and encouraged expression of their thoughts and feelings. Through their drawings and stories collected in interviews, the children become art directors for

McCarty’s images. Using locally bought toys, he recreates their impressions in the actual locations they occurred and photographs them with striking artistry. The goal of the project, he said, is to share the children’s perspectives and help them cope with the devastation and loss brought by war. “Play and art unlock their experience and begin the process of healing and understanding,” McCarty said. On his second trip late last year, he visited Israel and the Gaza Strip

and experienced what the children he encounters know all too well – a flare-up of hostilities between Palestinian factions and Israel, resulting in “incursions, rocket attacks, tank shelling, mortar fire, air strikes, and a growing number of wounded and dead.” His day-by-day account is chronicled in his blog (www. blog.wartoysproject.com). McCarty has received support, protection, and access to children and therapists through organizations such as the Israel Trauma Coalition and The

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An Artist’s Advice – For students who aspire to a creative career – or to taking on a mission – photographer Brian McCarty offers a few lessons learned: “Being an independent artist has taught me a great deal of patience. It’s not something I had very much of as a student. What I’ve learned is to embrace ambition and drive without any expectations, to regularly take leaps of faith without knowing what the outcome will be, and to accept ‘success’ or ‘failure’ as part of the process, not a defining characteristic. To quote [Nobel Prize-winning French writer] André Gide, ‘One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.’”

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, said the agency was eager to assist McCarty because his work shines a light on the youngest victims of the conflict. “His work recognizes the common humanity that unites children – whether it’s children in Israel, or children in Palestine, or children in Gaza, or children anywhere,” Gunness said by phone from London. “I think his work is informed by a universality.” Gunness has also been impressed by McCarty’s commitment to the project, coupled with his artistry. “His work is extremely beautiful and

provocative and surreal, but the other thing is the involvement of the community,” Gunness said. “Everyone who met him was won over by him, wanted to help him, and was completely convinced by his methodology and what he was trying to do.” The common bond is children. McCarty has been struck by how the kids’ drawings display typical images – planes, trains and boats – mixed with missiles, mortars, soldiers, and the dead. Many of their depictions feature a smiling child, either observing the events or getting shot, he said. His War-Toys photographs reflect the realities of life for children in war zones – 16 rockets raining down on Cinderella poised

on the desert sand; a little boy figurine face down in the dirt, surrounded by a pool of red and a platoon of armed plastic soldiers; a little girl doll, arms outstretched to the sky, standing before a bombed-out building. This last work is called “Resilience,” a quality that struck Bill Murray ’92 when he saw his friend’s photographs. Murray, pastor at St. Elisabeth’s Episcopal Church in Bartlett, recently wrote about McCarty’s project in his blog, calling his images examples of “hope and resilience in the midst of suffering and war.” “How war affects children is rarely discussed,” Murray said. “All those children want peace, and safety, and love, and

“Arms Long Enough” is based upon this drawing made by an Israeli boy in the town of Sderot. It shows his wish to be able to catch a rocket before it hits his house. Brian McCarty interviewed him in a community bomb shelter on the morning a November 2012 ceasefire took hold. In the preceding week 1,456 rockets and mortars had been fired from Gaza toward Israel. With Sderot less than a mile from the border to Gaza, it is often targeted.

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McCarty photographed “Youth Resistance” on the streets of the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. It illustrates a boy’s account of a youth uprising in the camp against Israeli incursions.

support. Brian has found a great way to explore conflict through children’s eyes. Shining a light on that is so critical. … It shows how alike we all are.” Murray recalled McCarty’s artistic interests budding at MUS, as his classmate designed the lighting in theater productions and photographed the cover image for The MUSe literary magazine. Art instructor Curt Schmitt sponsored his independent study in photography, encouraging him to experiment with his craft. McCarty would go on to earn his bachelor of fine arts degree from Parsons School of Design in New York City and study at Fabrica, Benetton’s creative research center in Treviso, Italy, where he was challenged to “think as a global citizen.” “The ideas and ideals that United Colors of Benetton and its creative research center, Fabrica, promoted weren’t just advertising rhetoric,” he said. “Knowledge of international affairs and a humanist approach were central, and they’ve stayed with me.”

As a result of his Fabrica studies, McCarty was invited to work on KON©EPT, the first major photographic exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia, after the Croatian War of Independence. He focused on war toys as cultural artifacts and tools for gaining perspective on conflict. As time passed

he began to see the potential for toys to promote healing for children of war. In the meantime he was building his career as a photographer of toys, eventually landing a job as a senior photo illustrator at Mattel. In 2003 he opened his own studio, McCarty PhotoWorks, in West Hollywood,

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CA, and in 2010 he released his book, ArtToys (Baby Tattoo Books). McCarty said it has taken his whole career to develop the methods behind the art he creates in the War-Toys Project, generating the perspective that imbues the playthings with life – and death. Equipped 14

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only with a backpack full of gear and toys, he styles and shoots images in battered zones. When he can, he hires a local young person to assist him. His wife, Mika, stays busy in their hometown of Hollywood, CA, as a visual effects producer for Richard Edlund/

DuMonde VFX. “Although Mika is more than capable, if she came along I would be worried about her safety and unable to concentrate,” McCarty said. His family has been very supportive of his project, he said, although the eruption of

At left: “Mortar Fire” is based upon a Palestinian boy’s drawing made in the Gaza Strip. It shows his view of the militants firing rockets and mortars as defenders of Gaza. The location seen in the photograph is a bombed-out building north of Gaza City that is often used by militants to hide munitions and launch attacks.

violence on his last trip did cause them some concern. Mika admitted she purposefully avoided news reports and her husband’s blog posts while he was in the region, and McCarty received a few anxious phone calls from his parents, Sharon McCarty of Memphis and Joseph McCarty of Knoxville.

Monetary support for the project has come from diverse sources – St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, which exhibited his work, and the non-profit branch of Singapore-based Potato Productions. (“They found me, remarkably,” he said.) Additional funding has come from private individuals as well as from his own pocket. “Mika gets huge credit for being so understanding, not just about the perils involved,” he said. “We’ve put off buying a house and many other things to get this project done.” McCarty sells his images and his book via his website (www.wartoysproject.com) to support the project. An online video plea last year helped him raise more than $4,000 needed to complete the funding for the 2012 trip. (Tax-deductible donations may be made via a link from his site to www.fracturedatlas.org.) As for his business, “very understanding clients” have made it possible for him to leave the country for five-week stretches, he said. “The time right before I leave and

after I get back are extremely busy, either cramming in projects or doing projects that waited,” he said. McCarty is preparing work from his recent trip to be featured at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood alongside its War Games exhibit, which explores the relationships between conflict and children’s toys. (The exhibit opened May 23, and it includes an online component. Visit www.museumofchildhood.org.uk.) He plans to expand his project to other embattled regions, such as Colombia, Uganda, and South Sudan. Conversations with the worldwide United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will determine his next step. “By the time this project is done, I want to present a global perspective on war from the children living in its day-to-day reality,” he said. “Unfortunately, there is no shortage of war zones to choose from.” There is also no shortage of raw materials for his art – children and toys – because, in his words, “Play is just as universal as war.”

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HOME IS WHERE THE PURPLE HEART IS Casey Nolan ’93 Helps Reinvent Houses for Wounded Warriors

It was the fall of 1991 when

Casey Nolan ’93 first heard “Champions of Character,” Coach Eddie Batey’s charge to his cross-country runners. For Nolan and his teammates, it was more than a catchphrase – it was an ideal they incorporated into eight-mile training runs and sweltering races. Their adherence to the principle paid off in back-to-back state championships that year and the next. Fast-forward two decades, and it seems dedication to character and quality is still with Nolan. David Haygood, of the global design and innovation firm IDEO, described that commitment as his attitude of “doing

well by doing good.” “By that I mean to set the bar on doing the right thing and let the issues of business and profitability take care of themselves,” he said. Haygood witnessed this characteristic while working with Nolan on the Wounded Warrior Home Project, a plan to reinvent handicapped-accessible housing on military bases. As the driving force behind the project, Nolan and Clark Realty Capital are going far beyond code minimums to make life more convenient, dignified, and enjoyable for soldiers and their families dealing with physical, mental, and emotional challenges. Nolan, who lives in Arlington, VA, cut

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the ribbon on the first two prototype homes at Fort Belvoir, VA, in 2011, and nearly 60 more of the accessible homes are under construction on several bases, including Fort Benning near Columbus, GA, and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL. The Wounded Warrior Home Project grew out of Clark Realty’s 50-year partnership with the Army to redevelop and manage housing at Fort Belvoir, as it does on bases across the country. In the process of creating handicapped-accessible housing, Nolan discovered the existing designs were not accommodating the wide-ranging needs residents faced. Some of the soldiers had sensory issues due MUS TODAY

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to brain injuries or security fears due to posttraumatic stress disorder. Others had no place to store wheelchairs or charge prosthetic legs out of visitors’ sight, or they had dinged the walls because passageways were too narrow. These soldiers did not want sympathy, Nolan said, they wanted to get on with their lives. “You start to see what these people are going through, and it makes our lives look so

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simple,” he said. “The least you can do is to make their lives better.”

Raising the Bar The journey to improve their lives began in May 2010 when Nolan hired IDEO – a design firm that analyzes human behavior in developing innovative solutions – to research the issues wounded soldiers and their families

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face. It was an unusual move, according to Haygood, a partner and vice president of client advocacy at IDEO. “Typically people in Casey’s business don’t hire people to do what we do. It was kind of a leap of faith,” he said from his office in Palo Alto, CA. After interviewing soldiers and civilians with various injuries and consulting with accessibility experts, IDEO came up with contrasting dualities that represent the diverse needs of disabled soldiers and their families. They include “social privacy,” indicating the need for both sanctuary and socialization spaces, and “mobile roots,” representing the transient nature of military life and the need for the house to be home. (See sidebar, page 21) Equipped with these guiding principles, Nolan conducted a nationwide design competition for the two Fort Belvoir prototype homes, choosing the international firm Michael Graves and Associates. A distinguished architect, Graves brought a personal understanding of disability issues. An infection in 2003 left him paralyzed from the waist down. Mark Sullivan, a senior associate with Graves’ firm, used three words to describe Nolan’s handling of the Wounded Warrior Home Project: energy, motivation, and collaboration. “It was evident he felt the success of this project was bigger than all of us,” Sullivan said. “He motivated the team and the client … and motivating the Army takes some serious energy. He collaborated with everyone and anyone to learn about the problem and how best to solve it.” The collaboration resulted in prototype homes with innovative design features that increase accessibility, flexibility, and livability. In addition to more common amenities –

wider hallways, adjustable-height counters and tables, curbless showers – the homes include contrasting floors that help orient residents, designated storage spaces that help them remember where items are located, level entryways and automatic doors to ease maneuverability, and multiple outlets in closets for recharging prosthetic legs. There’s even a therapy room equipped with a digital camera so patients can interact with health care professionals remotely. Despite the utilitarian features, the houses are definitely

homes – attractive, airy, and welcoming. The project has drawn positive attention from the media, including Time magazine, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, trade publications, and – a personal favorite for Eagle Scout Nolan – Eagle Scout Magazine.

Building on Success Even as a child and teenager Nolan liked to build things – his Eagle service project was the construction/renovation of the nursery at Memphis Zoo. After graduating ninth

grade at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School, he transferred to Memphis University School and joined the soccer team under Coach Bob Winfrey – “another great guy who talked about building character and instilling values” – and soon felt at home. The next year he decided to give cross country a try, and he met Batey, whom he describes as “an awesome coach,” capable of pushing runners to new levels while fostering camaraderie. Batey, who has kept in touch with Nolan over the years, described the teenage athlete as Photos: Clark Realty Capital LLC

Casey Nolan is the sixth runner from the right in this photo of the 1991 state champion cross-country team; Coach Eddie Batey is at far left, holding up the team plaque. Brandon Ehrhart ’93 captured the moment.

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a fierce competitor without a fierce disposition. “He had an infectious laugh that we heard often,” he said. “In any battle of wits, he was well armed but never mean-spirited. He was a great teammate.” As those teammates racked up mile after mile together, they forged tremendous bonds. Nolan especially remembers running alongside Class of ’93 friends Malcom Saxon, Sandy Hooper, Jason Buch, Craig Isenberg, and Jon-Paul Hickey. Saxon, who is now the cross-country and track coach at Jackson Preparatory School in Jackson, MS, said he remembers Nolan as a real team player: “He was friendly, hardworking, fun, and a great encourager – always had a smile on his face. I was not surprised at all to see that he is giving of himself to help people.” Lessons learned on those long, hot runs spilled over into Nolan’s life.

“It taught me perseverance and sticking to a plan, following the guidance of the coach, and building on the energy of my teammates,” he said. Lessons learned in the classrooms at MUS helped lay the foundation for his academic success, he said. He especially remembers Mike Gunn as a demanding and effective calculus instructor. “Mr. Gunn taught us analytical thinking and the discipline to spend the time solving problems, which paved the way for my success in engineering,” he said. Ellis Haguewood balanced out the math with studies in literature. “He was a fantastic teacher,” Nolan said. “After graduating from MUS I probably took only one more English class, so Mr. Haguewood was my next-to-last English teacher.” Nolan went on to earn a degree in civil

engineering at the University of Virginia and later to get his MBA from Harvard University. Clark Realty recruited him right out of college, and he eventually got involved with construction, overseeing several projects in California, including the San Diego Padres ballpark, a Palm Springs tennis stadium, and a rocket launcher outside Santa Barbara. After transitioning to the developer side of the business, he learned the joy of conceiving projects. “I’m not just taking someone else’s ideas and building them. I get to come up with the ideas, find the right architect, and have a real influence over what the end product’s going to be,” he said. He has learned the joy of fatherhood since he and his wife, Caroline, welcomed identical twin boys, Aiden and Carden, September 22, 2010 – an experience he describes as exhausting but fun.

Casey Nolan, center, director of the Wounded Warriors Home Project, cuts the ribbon on universally accessible homes in Fort Belvoir, VA. To his right, in the wheelchair, is Michael Graves, architect.

IDEO defined seven dualities that represent the needs of the disabled soldiers and their families. Well Defined, Undefined Spaces – Residents need well defined spaces that can be adapted to changing preferences and physical and mental challenges. Mobile Roots – Despite the transient nature of military life, a house needs to feel like home. Inside Out, Outside In – The home design should provide easy access to the healing force of nature, both inside and out. Visible and Invisible Security – People with PTSD

“They are following in Daddy’s footsteps – they’re obsessed with construction. They like driving around with me and seeing construction sites,” he said.

Homes for Everyone Eventually, Nolan hopes design concepts developed through the Wounded Warrior Home Project will make houses across America more universally accessible, not only for residents but also for visitors. “A lot of these design ideas don’t cost more money. It’s just a different way of thinking,” he said. The prototype homes, however, did not come cheap, costing about $200 per square foot, which is 25 percent more than the company has spent on other base homes. Single-story houses, necessary for accessibility, always cost more than two-story homes, according to Nolan. Clark has cut about 20 percent from the cost of subsequent houses by scaling back some features, such as a 12-zone HVAC system and automatic doors. In the future Nolan sees accessibility becoming a standard practice in the same way that environmental sustainability has been adopted by builders, which would further lower costs of materials. To that end Clark Realty is sharing plans and lessons learned with interested home-building companies and nonprofits. “For us, giving away the plans and trying to share all the ideas is our way to say, ‘Take it, run with it. It will make someone’s house – whether it’s a Wounded Warrior or someone’s parents – a better place for them.’ ” So far the two 3,000-square-foot, fourbedroom homes at Fort Belvoir have provided a better place for a Marine staff sergeant with five children who lost both legs in Afghanistan and an Army specialist with three children

and reduced mobility want security through concealment and reduced exposure while maintaining visibility and control of their environment. Social Privacy – A home must be both a quiet sanctuary and a site for social gatherings. Uniquely Normal – An accessible home must provide for the physical and mental challenges of the residents while appearing as a typical home. Old Self, New Self – The design should accommodate the many stages of recovery.

whose wife has multiple sclerosis. In light of the media attention on the project, Nolan is protective of the privacy of the residents, who were not available for interviews. Army Capt. Alvin Shell, one of the disabled soldiers the IDEO staff interviewed,

felt they’d poured their heart and soul into this project, and he learned from those guys. He just naturally led this project.” For his part Nolan said meeting people like Shell – who suffered severe burns while trying to save a fellow soldier near Baghdad – helps keep life’s priorities in order. Balancing those priorities, however, is Nolan’s greatest challenge. As he juggles four projects, recruits new employees, handles business development, and myriad other work details, he is determined to be present for Caroline and the twins. “I can’t miss stuff,” he said. “I want to be there.” So, like his father, Memphian Lewis Nolan, did for his young family, Casey gets

Casey and Caroline Nolan with their twins Carden, left, and Aiden

has said the homes send a message that the Army welcomes back injured soldiers and cares about families living with disabilities. He also has high praise for Nolan and his role in the Wounded Warrior Home Project. “He was informed not because he was the smartest guy in the room, but because he was the best guy in the room,” Shell told Eagle Scout Magazine. “He listened to those subjectmatter experts, he listened to those people that

home for dinner and time with his boys, then he often works in his home office until midnight. The former cross-country athlete knows the value of going that extra mile – for his family, for his career, and for the men and women who serve and sacrifice for our country. Being a Champion of Character requires that kind of dedication. MUS TODAY

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OPEN HEART SURGEON Dr. Owen Tabor, Jr. ’85, Implants Service in Practice of Medicine

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When Dr. Owen Tabor, Jr. ’85 first met Roger, the man could barely walk. A construction worker by trade, he had to turn independent contractor during the housing bust and lost his health insurance. For several years the pain in his hips had grown worse, but he was unable to pay for treatment. Eventually, he sought help at the Church Health Center, which provides primary health care to low-income, uninsured working people in Memphis. He ended up at Tabor Orthopedics PC. “Both of his hips were completely worn out by arthritis,” Tabor, an orthopedic surgeon, said. “He was really grumpy, mad at the world. He had worked hard all of his life and now was essentially crippled at the age of 50, with no hope of recovery. Even when I told him he could have his hips replaced at no cost, he was skeptical.” People like Roger keep Tabor volunteering for CHC. The center’s focus is to promote wellness of the spirit as well as the body – a goal Tabor admires for its clarity of purpose. Introduced by his father to Dr. Scott Morris, the visionary founder and executive director of CHC, Tabor began volunteering in 1999. Service seems to be as much a part of Tabor’s life as replacing joints and repairing torn ACLs. It’s a trait well recognized by Morris, who admires Tabor for his passion in serving others as well as his medical expertise. When he needed his own hip replaced, he chose Tabor to perform the surgery. “He is not only a good doctor, but a better person,” Morris said. “He has a heart that only cares about doing the right thing. He fits the mission of the Church Health Center to a ‘T.’” Tabor found another perfect fit for his skills in his volunteer service as Memphis University School football team physician, again following his father’s lead. Dr. Owen Tabor, Sr., served on the MUS sidelines from 1971 to 1986, when Tabor and his brother, Wellford Tabor ’86, played football. Dr. Jim Varner ’73 served until Tabor took over in 1999. When Varner asked Owen Tabor if he was interested in volunteering, he did not hesitate. “I love the school, and my office is right across the street, so it makes sense,” Tabor said. Tabor’s expertise has been invaluable to Director of Athletics Bobby Alston, not only in patching up injuries, but in preventing them as well. “For the last 13 years, Owen Tabor has provided medical advice and guidance to countless boys and also to our entire

department on a wide variety of topics,” Alston said. “He has helped us draft policies and procedures to promote the best health care practices our school can provide.” As he has gotten to know the next generation of MUS students, Tabor has been impressed by their maturity, sincerity, and enthusiasm – traits he sees expressed in their respect for coaches and support for teammates. “I have also really enjoyed getting to know these guys when they are young and then seeing them grow up into confident adults. My first few years, guys like Paul Gillespie ’01, John Phillips ’03, and Ryves Moore ’03 were on the team, and I got to know them. Now they are old men with careers,” Tabor said. “I met Alex Dale ’12 when he was a skinny little kid who had never heard of MUS. Now he’s playing college ball [for University of Cincinnati].” Recalling his own years at MUS, Tabor is very thankful for the mentoring he received, and he is grateful now to be a mentor for these young athletes. He credits MUS with providing an excellent educational foundation that prepared him for college and medical school. “Teachers, coaches, and administrators went out of their way to keep me headed in a positive direction. There are too many to mention by name, but they know who they are, and several of them are still at MUS,” he said. Tabor’s support for his alma mater goes beyond volunteering as football team doctor. Tabor serves on the MUS Board of Trustees, and he and his wife, Jeannie, are members of the Ross M. Lynn Society and the Crest and Cornerstone Society. Tabor was on the Alumni Executive Board from 2002-05, serving as president from 2004-05. The board named him Volunteer of the Year in 2006. Sons Sherman ’15 and Harrison ’17 are current MUS students – both are on the swim team, and Harrison plays football. Daughter Virginia is in the fifth grade at Hutchison School. So how does a busy dad with a thriving medical practice and a heart for serving others, balance it all? “You have to prioritize,” Tabor said. “I quit playing golf, which was pretty easy, because I was getting worse every year.”

Left: Dr. Owen Tabor, Jr., and athletic trainer Katie Upchurch check DJ Walker’s ’13 ankle during a game.

Tabor’s wife, Jeannie, is often by his side at football games.

His dedication to serving the Memphis community garnered Tabor recognition when The Commercial Appeal presented him with the 2012 Jefferson Award for outstanding volunteerism, much to his surprise. “I’m just one doctor in the ministry of the CHC,” Tabor said. “There are dozens, if not hundreds, of health care providers who do as much or more than I do for the CHC. In fact, I couldn’t even do my small part if it were not for the hospitals and implant companies that donate their services and equipment for our patients.” Humility and gratitude seems to be woven into Tabor’s character, as is his joy in serving others. He says every minute of his volunteered time is repaid with the smiles, high-fives, hugs, and tears of thanks he gets from players and patients – none more compelling than Roger’s expression of gratitude for his hip replacements. Six months after that first office visit, Roger could walk without a limp, and he no longer relied on pain medication to get him through the day. “Roger had never spoken much during his doctor visits or at the hospital,” Tabor said, “but on his last checkup in my office, he says, ‘Dr. Tabor, I’m not very good with words, so I’ll try to paint a picture. Imagine it’s 1968, Shea Stadium, and The Beatles take the stage. The crowd is going wild, chanting ‘We love you’ to John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Now, imagine that instead of The Beatles, it is you and Dr. Morris on the stage, and I am the crowd.’ “As I sat there, completely stunned,” Tabor said, “he got up and walked out.” Tabor said he hopes others will step up to carry on the mission of giving to others – and find for themselves the reward that comes from giving freely. For more information on Church Health Center, visit www.churchhealthcenter.org. MUS TODAY

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For the digital age Michael Morisy â&#x20AC;&#x2122;03 Eases Information Requests with MuckRock by Liz Copeland and Erin Floyd

Journalist Michael Morisy ’03 got his first taste of publishing as editor of The MUSe, the Memphis University School literary magazine. Even then he seemed to understand the Fourth Estate mandate to keep power in balance.

“It was such a scrappy, underdog publication compared to the yearbook and newspaper,” he said. “We grew its presence on campus. We got more people involved and even put out a CD.” These days Morisy is a Boston Globe news producer covering start-ups and innovation. He is also cofounder of his own start-up, an online service that is getting more people involved in keeping government accountable. MuckRock, launched in May 2010, helps users obtain government information using existing public records laws, such as the Freedom of Information Act. In addition the MuckRock staff analyzes and reports on newsworthy findings. “As a taxpayer, you’re the government’s ultimate boss, and you have a right to see what they’re doing with your money, but it is usually very hard to get them to turn records over,” Morisy said. “We’ve created an easy web platform for requesting this kind of information, and then we publish everything our users request so it’s easier for others to find.” Sometimes the process can get complicated – and litigious – as Morisy and co-founder Mitchell Kotler discovered soon after starting MuckRock. “The state of Massachusetts threatened to throw us in jail after we published documents they had given us,” he said. “People really rallied around us after that. We ended up avoiding jail and keeping the documents online.”

Indeed, the incident made headlines, turning their upstart crusade into a cause célèbre in media circles. A story in the Boston alternative newspaper The Phoenix at the time describes the environment: “MuckRock found itself smack in the middle of an ongoing debate over how new media and open-records initiatives are challenging long-held assumptions about how the government deals with ‘public’ information.” MuckRock has gained visibility through some other newsworthy events, as in December 2011 when the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled FBI Director Robert Mueller on the bureau’s response to an information request that Morisy had reported in his blog. In February 2012 the release of the FBI file on Apple founder Steve Jobs also stirred interest. MuckRock is currently conducting a drone census in association with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to determine use of the airborne surveillance devices and what law enforcement agencies are doing to prevent abuse. In February the Fund for Investigative Journalism awarded a $4,000 grant to MuckRock for reporting on techno-surveillance techniques. However, most of its funding comes from users, who pay fees for filing requests (starting at 5 requests for $20) or data analysis. As of mid-May 4,712 requests had been filed; 703 had been successfully completed; 277 had been denied; and a total of 108,384 pages of government documents had been released. The system allows users to track their requests and view agency responses. Information is not posted on the site until after journalists have published their articles pertaining to the data. The idea for MuckRock came to Morisy several years ago as he was observing the news landscape and considering his path. “I’ve always been a fairly technical guy, and the economy just wasn’t – and isn’t – supporting as much in-depth, investigative reporting as it used to,” he said. “That was what I really wanted to do. I started thinking about how I could do what I love while earning a

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paycheck, and I got the idea of tapping into hundreds of people to help investigate, explain, and participate.” Morisy and Kotler, an engineer who built the system and oversees the technical operations, started with nothing but a domain name and a grant from the government transparency group Sunlight Foundation to help cover initial costs. “Ever since we launched, almost every month we’ve made a little more money than the month before – which was our goal from the beginning,” Morisy said. “It’s a lot of fun getting to work for a small organization that’s growing, particularly when so many older media companies are having to contract.” They work from Boston Globe’s Globe Lab – where entrepreneurs are invited to try out new ideas – along with two editors, a web developer, and several interns. Journalists make up a large portion of the user base, but Morisy has been surprised to see even more everyday citizens filing requests, and some have turned into stories. One user suggested MuckRock look into drones in Austin, TX, he said, and it turned out the city had come close to purchasing the surveillance devices without the required federal approval. “It’s really exciting to see people who knew nothing about public records start exercising their rights and holding

government accountable,” he said. Released information has also provided some lighter moments in the newsroom, such as 1973 documents detailing the State Department’s negotiations to examine “space balls” discovered in New Zealand, which were later determined to be part of a farmer’s hoax. There have also been queries for the FBI files of the Wu-Tang Clan, documents about the government’s response to an exploding toilet, and information on what CIA agents hate about their cafeteria. Morisy has learned the news is often stranger than fiction – a realization MUS English instructor Terry Shelton foresaw a decade ago. Morisy considered himself a budding fiction writer until Shelton suggested he get real-world experience through journalism. “He encouraged me as a writer, helping me find my strengths and understand my weaknesses,” Morisy said. Shelton remembers his student as voracious reader who consumed three or four times the required books from a collateral list: “So avid a fiction reader was he that I think he sometimes neglected his other classes – a neglect I found I could put up with,” Shelton said. Morisy earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Cornell University and an internship at The New York Daily

News, where he researched and wrote for a team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He was also a writer, editor, and editorial director at the technology media company TechTarget and a web producer at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. In addition to his work at MuckRock and The Boston Globe, Morisy is on the board of Spare Change News, a street newspaper published in Cambridge, MA, which is sold by homeless people. Keeping it all in balance – and trying to squeeze in a daily jog – is challenging, he said. “But everything I do is related and builds off everything else, so I really enjoy it.” He got into journalism because he liked to write and tell stories, but it has turned into much more, he said. “The opportunity to help make a difference for our readers has been incredibly rewarding, whether it’s helping expose government waste or abuse of power, or just helping them understand their city a little bit better.” As Shelton had predicted, all this realworld experience is providing him with endless material – worlds of underdogs to champion and powerful worlds to watchdog.

Morisy on MUS, Memphis, and Media Careers MUS Today turned the tables on journalist Michael Morisy ’03 with a few interview questions of our own: Do you have any advice for aspiring journalists? There’s work out there – I have to turn down way more than I can take – but you have to take responsibility for your career. The days of news organizations shepherding reporters up through the ranks is over, and in most cases, news executives have less an idea of what the future will or should look like than a 19 year old with a Twitter account. What gets you ahead is going out and trying to build, write, or do something excellent that nobody else is doing, and my advice would be to take those kinds of risks. When you think about your time at MUS, what comes to mind? MUS taught me so much about myself – how to work with others and how to think for yourself and 26

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stand up for what you know is right, no matter what it might cost you. Being editor of The MUSe really sparked my love for publishing. Computer science, which I took from Tom Brown, was also a lot of fun and influential in ways that would later surprise me. I’ve been blessed to have a career in which I get paid to do things I really love. I believe this is due, in large part, to honing my skills at MUS. What do you miss about Memphis? The amazing family [including his parents, Lee and Michele Morisy] and friends still there, but also the culture: There’s so much wonderful live music, amazing food, and rich tradition that really became a big part of me. And speaking of food – the burnt chicken they call barbecue around [Boston] makes me sad every time I see it.

Memphis Grizzlies minority owners gather with majority owner Robert Pera, seated left, and CEO Jason Levien. Alumni owners are Staley Cates, at left, holding his name jersey; Joseph R. ‘Pitt’ Hyde, to the right of Levien; Billy Orgel, behind and left of Hyde; and Edward Dobbs, far back at right.

OWLS PARTNER WITH GRIZZLIES The Memphis Grizzlies changed hands last fall, and a quartet of MUS alumni were among the 22 limited partners in the minority group: Joseph R. “Pitt” Hyde ’61, AutoZone Inc. founder; Billy Orgel ’81, president of Tower Ventures LLC; Staley Cates ’82, president and chief investment officer of Southeastern Asset Management Inc.; and Edward Dobbs ’89, president of Dobbs Management Service LLC. The group also boasts some Memphis

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star power, including entertainer Justin Timberlake, former NBA player Penny Hardaway, and Ashley Manning, wife of four-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning. Cates and Hyde (along with Andy Cates ’89) had minority ownership under Michael Heisley, who brought the Grizzlies to Memphis from Vancouver, Canada, in 2001. New majority owner Robert Pera, founder and CEO of Ubiquiti Networks, reportedly owns 40-48 percent of the franchise.

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Oscar Atkinson left, and Chris Copeland

Skin in the Game

Alumni Bank on Dermaflage to Camouflage Skin Flaws by Andrew Millen ’08

Rayad Gomez struggled for most of his life with the embarrassment of facial acne scars. In an effort to regain the confidence he lost as a teenager battling his all-too-public blemishes, he decided to try a new product on the market – a silicone-based filler formulated to hide recessed skin imperfections. The results, he said, were dramatic. “When I saw my face smooth again for the first time since my teen years, I felt it was déjà vu,” he wrote. “Tonight, I saw more than 20 years of insecurity disappear in two minutes.” Gomez penned those lines of approval on the Dermaflage website, where he posted his photo alongside dozens of reports from people describing similar emotional relief gained from concealing their scars. “We get some amazing testimonials about Dermaflage,” Oscar Atkinson ’96, CEO and co-founder of Memphis-based Silicone Arts Laboratories, said. “Everyone who uses it talks about their confidence coming back. Most of our consumers are healthy, but they feel handicapped by whatever imperfection they have to live with. It’s really inspiring when we can provide a product that makes them feel whole again.” Atkinson was working in finance when his wife, Jocelyn Atkinson, introduced him to one of her marketing clients, Matt Singer, a former Hollywood makeup artist and worldrenowned facial prosthetic specialist. Singer had invented Dermaflage from the same materials he used in special effects makeup. “The more I learned about Matt’s 28

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product, the more excited I became about its possibilities,” Atkinson said. “He had this incredible invention but lacked the marketing and finance background to commercialize it. I fell in love with the idea of building a startup around a great product and partnering with other smart, adventurous folks willing to take a risk. My wife developed the marketing strategy, and I raised some capital and gathered a small team to get the company going.” Another key team member is fellow MUS alumnus Chris Copeland ’99, director of business development at Silicone Arts Labs, which manufactures and distributes Dermaflage and other silicone-based products. Copeland reached out to Atkinson after reading about the startup in The Commercial Appeal. “I have a background in direct selling with [Proactiv acne treatment maker] Rodan and Fields,” Copeland said, “so jumping on board with Oscar was a natural transition.” Atkinson said Copeland has been instrumental to the company’s sales and marketing success. Since its launch in 2011, Dermaflage has been featured in an ABC World News Made in America segment and on Anderson Cooper’s Anderson Live. In its first full year on the market (2012), Dermaflage gained 5,000 customers and booked roughly $300,000 in revenue. “Chris has helped build this startup into a globally competitive company, primarily through social media and an e-commerce

platform that allows customers to find us. We then follow up by establishing distribution channels in countries with the highest demand.” Atkinson traveled to Asia on a trade mission sponsored by the Small Business Association and the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development in March 2012. At the end of the eightday trip, he had secured a distribution deal in South Korea and garnered significant interest in China. “The last two years have been a roller coaster of excitement and fear,” he said. “The excitement of building something from scratch and the fear of knowing that most small businesses fold in the first two years. There are plenty of sleepless nights when you’re not sure you can make payroll. But having ownership in a company we’ve built ourselves – and a great product – gives us confidence.” Dermaflage is produced in downtown Memphis, with all raw materials coming from within the United States. A team of seven employees manufactures, packs, fulfills, and ships orders to individual customers as well as the company’s several international distributors. The product comes in 11 skin tones to meet the needs of customers around the globe. Atkinson said he expects to reach annual revenues of $10 million within the next four years. This year the company will debut on a TV shopping channel and launch two new products for acne and wrinkles. “We are playing in a very competitive field, but if we win, we can win big,” Atkinson said. “Chris and I both enjoyed competing on teams at MUS, and now we are having a blast in the beauty business. We know more about makeup than most men should.” For more information visit www.dermaflage.com. Oscar Atkinson demonstrates how Dermaflage conceals scars.

Mary Hollis Inboden and Evan Linder have been writing partners since they co-founded the Chicago-based New Colony Theater in 2008.

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On-Stage Warriors Play Sheds Light on Aftermath of School Shootings by Andrew Millen ’08

No set, no costumes, nothing printed on the ticket. Not even a playbill – just a lettersized page with a white ribbon quietly asking for donations. On the stage five chairs and five music stands that Evan Linder ’00 and his partner, Mary Hollis Inboden, borrowed from nearby Rhodes College and carried into Circuit Playhouse. This showing of The Warriors isn’t about production value. It’s about supporting a cause. MUS TODAY

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Linder and Inboden, co-founders of the Chicago-based New Colony Theater, penned The Warriors in 2010. The play draws on Inboden’s life experience to tell the story of a group of warriors – not victims, they insist – living life in the wake of unspeakable tragedy. Inboden is a survivor of the Jonesboro massacre of 1998 that claimed the lives of five people at Westside Middle School, including her best friend and her teacher. In December 2012 a similar tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. “When we heard the news,” Linder said, “we got stuck thinking, ‘It’s happened again, so what do you do? What can you do? What can anybody do when something like this happens?’” Then Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago reached out to them to suggest a stage reading of The Warriors. “We loved the idea,” he said. “We thought we should have 50 readings and raise a million dollars for Newtown. Then we had to take a step back and say, ‘Okay, what’s something actionable we can do?’ The first thing I thought about was Playhouse.”

Linder and Inboden met during a Playhouse on the Square internship in 2004. After collaborating on several show ideas at New Colony, Inboden decided she wanted to write something about the shooting. The Warriors, a nod to the Westside school mascot, first debuted in Chicago in March 2011. The lack of sets and staging at the Circuit Playhouse stage reading of The Warriors hardly diminished the show’s emotional impact. Threading humor, honesty, and gravitas into what Inboden calls “a love letter to Westside and my hometown,” the show candidly explores the struggles of post-traumatic life and the difficulty of moving on in a country plagued by gun violence. “It doesn’t go away,” the characters repeat. “It never goes away.” Inboden contacted 35 of her classmates before creating the play. Twenty-four responded with their blessing. Fifteen agreed to be interviewed, allowing Linder to create composite characters in The Warriors who represent the lingering emotional effects of the childhood tragedy that bonded the real-life Warriors together.

Linder wanted to read The Warriors in Memphis to bring the show nearer to Jonesboro. “I remember when it happened,” he said. “I was in Memphis, and it just felt so close. I know that to bring the show so close to home is really nice for Mary Hollis, so that she is able to share it with the people whose interviews helped create the show. Many of the original Warriors who couldn’t make it to the Chicago premier are here tonight.” Proceeds from the stage reading benefitted both the Sandy Hook School Support Fund and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s Gun Down initiative, a program intended to curb gun violence in Memphis. Linder and Inboden were pleased with the strong turnout at Circuit Playhouse, where they raised more than $2,000 – one step toward their $1 million goal. The Warriors is an open-source play, meaning anyone can download the script for free. Inboden and Linder allow the play to be produced royalty-free, provided the profits from the show go to charity. Download it directly by visiting this link: tinyurl.com/bn84xwh.

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Friends and Strangers

The Strangers play the 2011 Battle of the Bands at MUS. Band members are, from left, Terry Wilson, Steve Rhea, Peter Schutt, Jim Robinson, Allen McCool (on drums), and Cleo Stevenson.

Garage Band Formed in ’64 Resurrects the Music and the Memories The Strangers began as friends. Some 48 years ago several MUS classmates formed this rock band and scored paying gigs for a time. After a 40-year hiatus, a class reunion brought them together again. Then last spring longtime member Steve Rhea ’68 passed away. The loss prompted Cleo Stevenson’68 to reminisce about the boys, the band, and the brotherhood that survives to this day.

by Cleo “Stevie” Stevenson ’68

t was 1964. As the blues drifted north from the Mississippi Delta and rockabilly flowed west from the hills of East Tennessee, the phenomenon known as the British Invasion was infiltrating the music scene. Aspiring young “musicians” were buying instruments, letting their hair down, and gathering in their parents’ garages. Musical talent was not a requirement – just a love for this new rock-and-roll sound.

Three 14-year-old MUS boys caught the fever. The inseparable friends, Jim “Jimbo” Robinson ’68, Peter Schutt ’68, and I, wanted to start a rock band. Peter and I talked our parents into getting us guitars and lessons, and Jimbo received a drum set for Christmas. Since Jimbo was the only band member who could carry a tune, he became both the lead singer and drummer by default. The first song we attempted was “Eight Days a Week” by The Beatles. It was rough, and practice did not seem to make perfect. After much perseverance, we started getting a few gigs at friends’ parties – the fact that we performed for free probably helped – and The Strangers was born. The band’s first legitimate performance was beside the Chickasaw Country Club pool. Our excitement was somewhat tempered when we realized the audience was only a handful of preteens. However,

this performance helped put The Strangers on the map, and we became very popular with the younger crowd. More importantly, we were reinforcing friendships that would last a lifetime. We were a band of brothers, and we were having a blast. We were also expanding. Realizing that many British rock songs require an electronic keyboard, Peter enlisted a neighborhood friend, Mark Cereghino. Not only was he a great pianist, but he also could sing. When

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Steve Rhea practices his guitar skills

Jimbo decided he needed to focus solely on singing lead, we searched for a drummer. At church one Sunday, a friend of my father’s told me his son, Steve Rhea ’68, was looking for a band. I asked if Steve could play drums – turns out he could play just about any musical instrument, and he could sing. The Strangers’ talent level went up another notch. When Peter decided to play bass, we recruited John Callison ’67 for lead guitar and played on. At one MUS pep rally, we backed up The Avantis, a local singing

Steve Rhea, Allen McCool, and Jim Robinson play with The Strangers at the 2010 Battle of the Bands.

group. They liked us so much, they asked us to back them up on tour. Needless to say, we did not think our parents would be enthralled with the idea of us dropping out of high school. By junior year we were playing clubs and high school dances. Mark introduced us to a seasoned guitar player named Don Baer, who took over for John. The final ’60s version of The Strangers was thus established. Since we were finally getting paid for our performances, we began upgrading our equipment. We started to look and sound somewhat professional. Our next goal was to play on Talent Party, a local 32

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teen dance show. We pooled our allowances and made an audition recording at Sonic Studios. We never heard back from Talent Party, so maybe there was some room for improvement. Early in our senior year, we performed to a great response at a St. Mary’s Episcopal School dance, which proved to be our swan song in that era. Some members wanted the group to become even more professional. The others just wanted to have fun. This dissention among The Strangers caused the friends to disband shortly thereafter. When it was time for college, most of the band members put down their instruments and focused on the next phase of their lives. Don became a well-known studio musician, and Steve worked at Ardent Studios (owned by John Fry ’62) during the summers. Steve, Peter, and I went to Southern Methodist University together and Jimbo went to University of Tennessee. The four of us always stayed in touch. Forty years after high school graduation, I received a call from class representative Bill Ferguson ’68 about the upcoming 2008 reunion. He thought it would be fun if The Strangers resurrected for the party. I explained that most of us had not played since high school – I didn’t even own a guitar anymore. Bill was persistent, saying we had almost two months to practice and we only needed to do a few songs. I was intrigued so I tried to contact the other band members. Don had passed away in 1999, and Mark had moved out of town, but Steve, Jimbo, and Peter agreed to get together, practice, and see if we could generate any magic. Steve could play lead guitar, so all we needed was another drummer. We met in Jimbo’s attic and auditioned drummers, which is how we found Allen McCool ’77. Although he is several years younger, he knew all the ’60s songs we wanted to play. Jimbo could sing lead vocals with Steve as backup, but we needed another singer for three-part harmonies. An old classmate, barbershop-quartet singer Terry Wilson ’68, joined the group. Peter convinced his friend and business partner, Ed Raines, an accomplished pianist, to try the keyboard. It only took one practice to realize we had chemistry.

One Saturday evening in September 2008, we set up in the back yard of Tommy Adams ’68 with a sound system borrowed from a local radio station. Steve had loaned me a guitar, and Ed was using my daughter’s Casio keyboard. We may not have looked professional, but we were psyched. The same could not be said of our wives, who seemed to expect disaster. When we cranked up, classmates and wives came out of the house to listen. Folks started dancing in the grass – some said we were even better than we were 40 years before. Since then The Strangers have played several parties and Battle of the Bands competitions, and even cut a CD in the MUS recording studio. When Ed left the band, Terry quickly learned to play the songs on the keyboard. Then the band was composed entirely of MUS graduates, five from the Class of ’68. We never asked for payment, only that the host would make a donation to charity or the MUS music department. In April 2011 Steve was diagnosed with brain cancer. We continued to rehearse and perform until our final performance with Steve at Chickasaw Country Club on October 1, 2011. This was the same site as our first “real” performance almost 45 years earlier. During Steve’s illness there was a tremendous outpouring of support from friends. Many classmates visited with him and brought meals for his family during those last few months. On May 16, 2012, Steve passed away, and his loss created a void that can never be filled. As for the future of The Strangers, only time will tell. One thing is for certain: We know it’s not about the music – it’s all about friendship.

COVERS A County Road to Rock and Roll by Christopher Blank

Rob Baird’s bags are packed; the guitar is in the case. The country singer-songwriter is about to pull out of the driveway for a new series of tour dates when the phone rings. It’s a call from his hometown of Memphis. Where’s he headed? Baird ’05, who’s staked his reputation on two no-nonsense albums in the alt-country vein, said he’s most likely headed in the direction of rock. “My current band is a little more rocking, so that’s

influencing my music right now,” Baird said. “I’ve been thinking of Lucinda Williams. She’s got a rock band behind her but she’s still considered a country artist. The country part of it is in the songwriting.” Since picking up the guitar as a kid, Baird has benefited from the “therapy” country music provides in dealing with those blue-eyed bad girls, saying farewell to a hometown, or coping with the ups and downs of being a musician. Now living in Austin, he gets motivation from “the pack of young [songwriters] all coming out at the same time. Great writers. Plus, the weather is good.” For Baird the Austin waters have been an elixir. His first album on Nashville’s Carnival label, Blue Eyed Angels in 2010, introduced the world to Baird’s sound, steeped in the gritty ethos of Steve Earle and Son Volt. In May 2012 he released his second Carnival album, I Swear It’s the Truth, which edged him closer to solid rock beats while

maintaining solid country instrumentation. Steel guitars and Hammond organs form a swirly backdrop to Baird’s strummed acoustic guitar. His tremulous, blue-collar vocals tell stories that are variously moody and redemptive. Spin magazine named I Swear It’s the Truth one of the top 20 country albums of 2012. (It came in 19th.) Baird was described as an “affable pop charmer” whose album is a “jangly, gauzy emphatically itinerant road-trip idyll for fans of David Nail and/or Jack Kerouac.” The Spin honor added up to great publicity. “It was one of those unexpected things that changes people’s perceptions of you almost instantly. South by Southwest [music festival] suddenly opened up to me. Bookings started opening up. Then the record charted on Billboard.” In Baird’s song “I Can’t Get Over You,” the narrator laments being stuck in a rut. “I keep moving on/Running hard and fast/ But everywhere I run to/I’m just standing still/Livin’ in the past.” The sentiment doesn’t apply to Baird. His sound is moving forward. He has a strong suspicion that when he gets back into the studio at the end of the year, he will be inspired by a few mementos from the road. Likely the biggest one will be the suitcase full of rock. For more on Baird, his music, and his tour dates, visit www. robbairdmusic.com.

The Blues in Bloom by Christopher Blank

Delta Joe Sanders never knows when inspiration may strike. For him songwriting is not a thing to simply sit down and do, like a MUS TODAY

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jigsaw puzzle. Or a day job. “The songs kind of just come out of me,” he said. “I’ll be driving and some words will start flowing and I’ll have to pull over to the side of the road. I’ll be in some kind of important meeting and it’s like, ‘Oh no, I’ve gotta go.’” Like lightning flashes across the Mississippi low country, the tunes on his latest album, Working Without a Net (Madjack Records), illuminate those ephemeral tableaux of life from one end of the region to the other. It’s a world populated with eccentric

honeysuckle, though to make it work in the song I have to pronounce it wrong,” he said. “It has such a powerful fragrance. When I’m landscaping, I always think about how aromas come together.” For most of his life Sanders has been categorized as a bluesman – he acquired the moniker “Delta Joe” while working at B.B. King’s on Beale Street in the early 1990s. However, his sixth career album has a folksy, roots sound. He recorded live at Sun Studio, sitting in the spot where Scotty Moore played guitar for Elvis. Layered atop his blues fingerpicking style and his worldweary voice are honkytonk pianos, country fiddles, and bright mandolins. He writes and sings from honest experience. One dispiriting night playing at a bar where no one paid him any attention resulted in the album’s saddest tune, one he said the Convention and Visitors Bureau would never dream of putting on a compilation. “I swear, I walked out of the bar that night and there were tumbleweeds blowing down the streets. I was never in a lonelier place.” In that somber tune, “The Windswept Plains of Memphis,” Sanders sings the bluesman’s lament: “They say the stage is ready for me/So I scramble to my feet/On the windswept plains of Memphis/Where I’ll try to make ends meet/Ooh, but it’s the blues in me, that sets me free and keeps me hanging on …” For more on Delta Joe Sanders, visit www.madjackrecords.com.

farm animals, muddy crossroads, and a beautiful woman waiting in the doorway for her wandering minstrel to make his way home. Growing up on his father’s cotton plantation near Tunica, MS, Joe Sanders ’73 learned guitar picking from the field hands who got him hooked on blues and gospel music. At MUS his beloved English teacher, William Hatchett, introduced him to Steinbeck’s novels and Frost’s poetry – literature that encouraged Sanders to start writing. “I owe [Hatchett] a lot,” Sanders said. “One year I won a poetry award, and I think everyone was surprised because I was never the best student.” Though the plantation was sold when his father died, Sanders never lost his love of the Southern terrain. He emerged from Mississippi State with a degree in horticulture and an even stronger love for blues music. A garden blooms in his lyrics – a wild garden full of kudzu and cockleburs, elderberry bushes and faded roses. One song, “Sweet Lonicera” came to him while walking near his home in High Point Terrace. “Lonicera fragrantissima is the Latin name for winter

Author Envisions Biographies from Visionary Lives

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by Christopher Blank

After nearly 50 interviews and more than eight months of research, David Yawn ’74 can finally enjoy the fruits of his most recent labor. His latest book, a 300-page history of the Robert Wang Center for International Business at the University of Memphis, is now on shelves at the campus bookstore and at the Wang Center in the Fogelman Executive Center. Moving Out to Meet the World – 25 Years of Internationalizing Students, Faculty and Executives ($30, Corporate Chronicles; Lighthouse Leadership Series) debuted at a February reception marking the center’s 25th anniversary. Like several of Yawn’s previous books, visionaries with big ideas are at its core – entrepreneurs such as Robert Wang, who came to Memphis in 1973 to study business and sociology at Memphis State University. Upon graduation Wang and his wife, Susie, started a business out of their home that would grow into one of America’s

largest distributors of craft, décor, and specialty home merchandise. (The Wangs started their current company, Creative Co-Op, in 2001 and were joined shortly thereafter by their sons, Eugene ’96 and Lee ’98.) Their good fortune in the early 1980s, along with a growth spurt of professional trade associations and international firms in Memphis, led to the founding of the center. The burgeoning business community of the ’80s, in an indirect way, also led to Yawn’s current career authoring commissioned biographies and company histories for Memphis executives. “It’s very intensive work,” Yawn said. “Most journalists don’t pursue commissioned long-form writing because in some ways, it’s extremely demanding. It takes eight months to a year-and-a-half for each book.” After graduating from the University of Mississippi, Yawn spent 12 years writing for the Memphis Business Journal before going to work for several of the corporations he formerly covered as a newsman. He created in-house editorial content for FedEx, International Paper, and the Baker Donelson law firm, and held other full-time positions before forming David Yawn Communications in 2001. Entering book publishing as an editor, he realized there was a niche for local commissioned books. He formed his own imprint, Corporate Chronicles, in 2005. Previous books he has written, co-written, or edited include My Journey (2011), the autobiography of Tom Garrott, retired chairman and CEO of National Bank of Commerce; From the Ground Up (2010), the biography of businessman and former FedEx senior manager Brian Pecon; and The Bodine Story (2009), the biography of Dick Bodine, entrepreneur and founder of a special education school bearing his name. Three more books are nearly finished: investor Terry Graves’ biography A Special Breed; a biography of Rev. Donald E. Mowery intertwined with the history of the youth leadership group BRIDGES; and a devotional book, Hope Realized, by Rev. Sam Laine of Oakland Presbyterian Church. “What I like about this type of writing is that I end up admiring my clients for their integrity,” Yawn said. “You really get to wrap your arms around a topic, unlike writing for a newspaper where you only scratch the surface.” Yawn said he has high regard for the MUS Honor Code, which he began practicing in grades 7 through 9, before transferring to White Station High School. He said the tenets of the code instilled the strong sense of ethics and transparency he applies to his business journalism and his second job as an investment-grade coin collection appraiser and private broker. “I always tell the people with whom I’m working that I’m going to be a lot more objective than they are,” Yawn said. “They understand that from the get-go. Clients tell me that’s what they like the most about my work.”

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From the Archives

Old School Owl Dr. Harold Adams Sparr by John E. Harkins, Ph.D., School Archivist and Historian

wo decades ago, when I was doing the initial research for the MUS Century Book, I encountered information about 1912 Memphis University School graduate Harold Sparr, the maternal grandfather of our biology instructor and tennis coach, Bill Taylor. Sparr became a star football player at MUS and later captained his gridiron team at the University of Virginia. Accordingly, I included his photograph, its caption, and a single sentence summary of his pigskin prowess at MUS and UVA. Only recently, when I had occasion to read back through the 1912 M.U.S.-Kito (yearbook), did I learn how versatile Sparr was and how much he contributed to MUS in his seventh and eighth form (junior and senior years). It seems remarkable that Sparr played football for MUS at all. When he reported for practice in his junior year, he admitted he “didn’t know a football from an egg.” However, according to an account detailed in the M.U.S.-Kito “he quickly learned the game and was of great assistance in building up the team. He would have made his monogram [earned a letter] and played in several out-of-town games, except for parental objection” [whatever that meant]. He substituted playing center and guard in 1910 and was expected to be a distinct monogram probability for the 1911 season. The 1912 yearbook described him thusly: “Gigantic of limb, yet supple as a dish rag, awkward, but agile withal, Sparr has stumbled his way to a secure place in the hearts of all. Everybody likes him, his droll antics, his ludicrous actions, and his generous heart. At left guard on the varsity this year, Sparr won our respect and admiration as an athlete.” In the McTyeire game Sparr was outstanding “from whistle to whistle,” and in on every play. He was regarded as one of the two best high school guards in the city. He later played fullback at UVA. Outside the football arena Sparr distinguished himself in other areas of athletics. He played soccer for three years, was on the gymnasium squad his senior year, was a member of the tennis club, and played intramural basketball. Outside of athletics, he was a member and treasurer of the school’s Jeffersonian Literary Society, and he was involved in the school’s Bible class. Sparr was active on the student newspaper staff, and he served as art editor and cartoonist on the yearbook board. His quirkiness shows up in the signatures on his drawings. He substituted the dollar symbol for a capital S and signed his artwork “$parr.” The yearbook indicates Sparr intended to return to MUS in the fall of 1912 “for a post-graduate course.” As highly regarded as MUS

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was academically, Sparr had only attended for two or three years. He may have needed to strengthen his transcript in order to get into UVA. I also learned he was involved in the production of his college’s yearbook, Corks and Curls. He returned to Memphis after earning his M.D. and became a wellregarded local physician. He is celebrated in a Commercial Appeal illustration by 1908 MUS graduate Jimmy Davant, which appears to be from 1928. Taylor brought the framed drawing to MUS, and we copied it for our archives. Three things seem interesting regarding this vignette. The first is that a good bit of the language usage from a century ago is unrecognizable to today’s youth. Second is the way families often spill over into multiple generations at MUS. Although Coach Taylor – whose middle name is Sparr – got his education at Snowden, Central, and Rhodes, he has taught and coached at championship levels here for 37 years. Moreover, his sons, Michael Taylor ’98 and Andrew Taylor ’02, stepson William Shirey ’02, and nephew John Taylor ’05 are graduates, and nephew Ben Taylor ’13 recently joined the alumni ranks. A third point to consider is how MUS values the opportunity to archive copies of images and/or information bearing on the history of the school and its community. Current technology has made it a simple matter to scan original documents and email them as attachments (up to 8MB in size) to the MUS Archives. MUS patrons who are willing to share archival items with the school may call John Harkins at (901) 260-1346 or Barbara Presley at (901) 260-1392, or email them (john.harkins@musowls.org or barbara.presley@musowls.org). Setting the Record Straight – We wish to thank Mary Joy

Knowlton for pointing out an error in the last “From the Archives” feature. Her father-in-law, Milton Knowlton, Sr., was misidentified. For the record, Knowlton is pictured in this 1910 postcard, second row from the back, fourth from the left. We regret the error.

Alumni Honor Clanton and Orgel Each year the Alumni Executive Board honors two alumni for their outstanding service to the community and the school. At the board’s annual luncheon during Homecoming week in September, Jonny Ballinger ’87, president, named William E. “Billy” Orgel ’81 Alumnus of the Year and Ben Clanton ’94 Alumni Volunteer of the Year.

Alumnus of the Year: Billy Orgel ’81

Volunteer of the Year: Ben Clanton ’94

s the first chairman of the Unified Shelby County Board of Education, Billy Orgel has been at the center of complex negotiations to unify the two school systems. This high-profile post is one of Orgel’s many entrepreneurial and community endeavors – achievements that underscore his selection as Alumnus of the Year. His business training began at the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a BBA in real estate and finance in 1985. Afterward he moved back to Memphis to work at his family’s company, Majestic Communications, where he began exploring the concept of airwaves as commercial property. As the company expanded he built towers to accommodate the growth. This marked the beginning of Tower Ventures, which has grown into a national provider of wireless communication structures with more than 575 towers in 30 states. Orgel’s accomplishments earned him induction into the Society of Entrepreneurs in 2010, an honor he accepted with typical humility: “I realize I didn’t achieve anything all by myself,” he said in a Commercial Appeal article. “I’ve had a lot of support along the way, and I know there’s a lot I can still learn from many of the great business leaders in Memphis.” Beyond his commercial success, Orgel has given back to his community by serving on myriad local boards, including BRIDGES, Inc., the New Memphis Arena Public Building Authority, the National Civil Rights Museum, and the Le Bonheur Foundation. He was elected as the first chairman of the new unified Shelby County Board of Education in 2011. At Temple Israel he is past president of the board of trustees and former co-chair of the $25 million capital campaign. Senior Rabbi Micah Greenstein has described him as an honest, ethical family man who is devoted to his community. “He never seeks attention, but finds ways to make things happen,” Greenstein told The Commercial Appeal. “It’s no accident that he’s accomplished as much as he has.” Orgel and his wife, Robin, have been regular members of the Thorn Society, and they have three children – Benjamin, Megan, and Hannah.

s a volunteer coach with the Lower School baseball team, Ben Clanton shares his knowledge with the players, serves as a role model – and something more. “Ben brings fun back to the game, and every player loves him,” Johnny Beard, baseball head coach, said. “We are lucky to have him in our baseball program.” Clanton’s involvement in the MUS community makes him a deserving recipient for the 2012 Alumni Volunteer of the Year honor. He serves as a representative for the Class of ’94 and participates in alumni events and fundraisers, in addition to his coaching duties. “His enthusiasm and energy as a coach have been credited with many students’ love of the game and dedication to the school’s program beyond their middle school years,” Ballinger said. “As with all alumni coaches, Ben shows MUS students the value of remaining involved with the school well after graduation.” Clanton played baseball at Christian Brothers University for two years and graduated from the University of Memphis, and he was a minorleague baseball umpire for eight years. He is a vice president at Duncan Williams Inc. in Memphis. At MUS he serves on the fundraising committee for baseball field improvements, supports the school’s Annual Fund, and demonstrates leadership during Phonathon. He also serves as an usher at Second Presbyterian Church. In presenting the honor Ballinger shared some of Clanton’s favorite activities while he was an MUS student – not surprisingly they involved athletics and service. He played baseball throughout high school, football as a freshman, and basketball as a sophomore. He also participated in the Civic Service Organization. He especially remembers managing the annual Christmas tree sale and tutoring children at an inner-city YMCA. “Ben told me he really appreciates the support he has received over the years from Coach Barry Ray and Headmaster Ellis Haguewood, especially since he may have had a knack for causing a bit of trouble during high school,” Ballinger said. Clanton said MUS and baseball have had a “phenomenal influence” on his life. “I’m so happy I have the opportunity to give a portion back of what I have received,” he said. Clanton and his wife, Lane, have a son, Boyce, and a daughter, Smith.

The Alumni Executive Board welcomed four new members last fall:

– Jim Robinson ’68 – Clark Burrow ’95 – David Frazier ’01 – John Summers ’05

Ben Clanton, left, and Billy Orgel

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16 OWLS HONORED IN NATIONAL MERIT COMPETITIONS Fifteen seniors have been honored as National Merit Finalists, and one senior has been honored as a National Achievement Finalist for 2012-13. Students qualify to be semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship programs by scoring well on the Preliminary SAT. Finalists are determined based on their application, their academic record, earning a score on the SAT that confirms their PSAT performance, and the recommendation of a school official, such as a college counselor. The National Achievement Finalist is Sylvester Tate. He is among 800 honorees, drawn from a pool of 160,000 AfricanAmerican students across the country, who will receive scholarships of $2,500. The National Merit Finalists are Philip Aiken, Jared Ashkenaz, Walker BusseySpencer, Forrest Field, William Hoehn, Michael Jalfon, Farhan Kathawala, A.J. Kharbanda, Bennett Mercer, David 38

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Montgomery, Andrew Renshaw, Amit Shah, Sam Shankman, Marshall Sharp, and Mac Trammell. Representing less than 1 percent of the 1.6 million U.S. high school students who take the qualifying test, the National Merit Finalists compete for 8,300 scholarships totaling more than $32 million. “These finalists represent 13 percent of our senior class,” Brian K. Smith, director of College Counseling, said. “MUS is dedicated to nurturing such academic excellence to prepare students for extraordinary achievement in college and beyond. I applaud the accomplishments of these young men, and I anticipate their continued success.”

LATIN SCHOLARS CLAIM SIXTH CONSECUTIVE STATE TITLE With a blast of trumpets, a chariot bearing Latin victors paraded through Hyde Chapel to present the first-place trophy from the 2013 Tennessee Junior Classical League State Convention. This marks the sixth consecutive year the Bubones (Owls) have brought home top state honors. Thirty schools from around Tennessee participated in the convention’s academic, athletic, and art competitions, held in Murfreesboro March 22-23. “It was a tough fight, and MUS survived a serious challenge from Hume-Fogg

Philip Aiken

Jared Ashkenaz

Walker Bussey-Spencer

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William Hoehn

Michael Jalfon

Farhan Kathawala

A.J. Kharbanda

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Academic High School to win the competition,” Ryan Sellers, instructor in Latin, said. “We had a total of 45 Upper School and Lower School students take part, and all of them contributed something to this victory.” Six MUS students were in the top 10 for individual point standings: Richard Ouyang ’15 (third), Yunhua Zhao ’15 (fourth), Salman Haque ’14 (sixth), William Lamb ’14 (seventh), Will McAtee ’16 (eighth), and Patton Orr ’16 (ninth). All three Certamen (academic quiz) teams advanced to the finals, and the Latin II Certamen team won first place in the intermediate category. The chariot, built by Tejvir Vaghela ’14, was more than a means of presenting the trophy. It helped earn Vaghela, Matthew Gayoso ’14, Paul Stevenson ’14, and Kanha Mishra ’17 a win in the chariot race – one of nearly three

dozen first-place finishes for the MUS team. After the trophy presentation, Headmaster Ellis Haguewood congratulated the Latin scholars and instructors for their recent victory as well as the run of six championships. “In a world of chaos and flux, it’s nice to have a constant – Latin,” he said.

CHESS KINGPINS CLAIM CONSECUTIVE CROWNS Andy Sorensen ’14, pictured at right, claimed the individual chess title in the Tennessee Chess Association’s state tournament held February 16 in Cookeville. Last year’s state champion, senior Nathan Vogt ’13, left, placed fourth. More than 400 students competed in the TCA’s regional tournaments, and 25 competitors battled it out in the state tournament. MUS TODAY

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Home-Run Home Wright said. Headmaster Ellis Haguewood expressed the philosophy behind all athletic endeavors at MUS – developing well rounded young men of strong moral character. “At their best, athletics can help inculcate the virtues we want in our boys – strength, stamina, perseverance, loyalty, teamwork, the ability to set goals and commit to those goals,” he said. Haguewood voiced his gratitude for the men and women who donated nearly $500,000 for the Thorn Field project, calling out three major donor couples: Jeanie and Buster Orr, Susan and Scott Plunkett, and Alice and Jeff Wright. He asked Buster Orr to throw the first pitch to his grandson, Colton Neel ’15. However, Orr passed the honor along. “I actually threw my arm out practicing with Jeanie, so I’m going to let her throw,” he said. After Jeanie Orr’s perfect pitch, festivities continued with a cookout, the batting fundraiser, an Easter egg hunt, and games featuring alumni playing against the varsity and junior varsity teams. The current students demonstrated their prowess, posting wins over their elders in both games. Buster Orr said he was pleased with the quality of the grandstand, calling it a worthy investment. “Any time you spend time or money on youth,

it’s well invested capital because the youth of today will be the people who watch over us later,” he said. “The Lord helped us do this, and we give Him all the glory.” Scott Plunkett, who was calling the game from the press box as his wife, Susan, tallied the batting contest donations, called the grandstand a great step in the right direction for MUS baseball. “The energy that’s been created from the dedication to the new stadium is something that will have a positive impact on MUS and baseball for a long time,” he said. Part of that energy is generated by a team eager for the state crown after earning runner-up honors the past three years. “The players all have good attitudes, and they are focused on their goal,” Beard said. “They want to get back to the state championships and try to win it, and we’ve got the players to do it,” he said. “They are charged up.” As he addressed the crowd during the dedication, Andrew Plunkett ’13 expressed the team’s resolve: “We’ve been knocking on the door of the state championship a few times, and it’s time we knock it down,” he said. “We can fix the door when we leave.”

Photos: Lance Murphey

The dedication of the new baseball grandstand at Thorn Field had all the excitement of an opening day – heartfelt speeches, ceremonial first pitch, burgers, hot dogs, and popcorn. There was even a batting contest that raised $10,000, with half being donated to Make-A-Wish Foundation to grant a child’s wish. The grandstand is a wish come true for many supporters of MUS baseball, who gathered March 29 to celebrate the baseball Owls, past, present, and future. Addressing the crowd from the field, Coach Johnny Beard thanked everyone who made the baseball complex possible. He also spoke about the spirit of expectation charging players and spectators alike. “There’s a lot of excitement in the air,” he said. “The baseball program has had a good run the last three or four years, and hopefully we’ll have another one this year.” Jeff Wright, father of Jeffrey ’07, Blair ’08, and Connor ’15, singled out some of the original supporters of the grandstand project, including Lane and Ben Clanton ’94, Kim and Mike Fitzsimmons, and Scarlett and John Lynn. “They said, ‘Hey, let’s build a grandstand, so we won’t have to sit on coke crates and pickle buckets, and let’s try to get a scoreboard, as well,’”

Supporters Celebrate Dedication of New Baseball Grandstand

Clockwise from lower left: Alumni assess the situation from their dugout, from left, Andy McArtor ’86, Pat Hopper ’89, Trevor Benitone ’91, Tyler Benitone ’93, and Harry Sayle ’92. > Matt Bolton ’13 fields the ball in the shadow of the new scoreboard. > Dallas Geer ’95 and his 4-year-old son, Dallas, get ready to play ball. > Jeanie Orr throws the first pitch to her grandson Colton Neel ’15 as Headmaster Ellis Haguewood umpires. > Haguewood thanks donors, from left, Alice and Jeff Wright, Scott and Susan Plunkett, and Jeanie and Buster Orr. > Andrew Plunkett ’13 says it’s time to ‘knock down’ the door to the state championship. > The Wright men: Blair ’08, Connor ’15, Jeff, and Jeffrey ’07 > Prospective Owls watch the proceedings.

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Lin Askew: Scholar, Mentor, Friend.

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BY NOAH BLACK AND LIZ COPELAND

onverse with English instructor Lin Askew for any length of time, and you soon realize he is a man of eclectic interests – Shakespeare, French Impressionism, Irish pub music, European travel, New Orleans cuisine, Tar Heel basketball. His passion, however, seems to be connecting with people through their interests – a trait not lost on his students.

“It is Mr. Askew’s engagement outside of the classroom and his genuine ability to relate to his students – his willingness to drop the red pen to chat about life, politics, food, or reality TV – that defines his reputation,” Evan Mah ’09 said. “His office door was open for questions about Huck Finn as well as for the life conundrums I invariably found myself in as a high school student.” Fellow English instructor Elizabeth Crosby finds his enthusiasm and dedication uplifting. “Askew’s love of language and passion for life itself are infectious, inspiring his students and colleagues alike,” she said. William Linwood “Lin” Askew III has been connecting with students, alumni, parents, and faculty since he began teaching at MUS in 1979, also serving as an administrator and a basketball and golf coach. When he was in seventh grade, Askew moved with his family to Memphis from his childhood home of Wilson, NC. He later enrolled in Germantown High School where he was, by his own account, “a decent student.” “I enjoyed English, and for some reason I was also in accelerated math classes. But math always tormented me, and upon graduation I vowed never to take it again,” he said. In high school literature class he displayed the beginnings of a deep intellectual curiosity, as he set himself to conquering Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov for a book report. His decision to study French as a junior and senior, however, was not motivated by such high-minded pursuits. MUS TODAY

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F A C U L T Y “I took it because of all the freshman and sophomore girls in the class,” he said. Askew graduated from the University of Memphis with a double major in history and English. Central to his interdisciplinary studies was a fascination with the rise of literary modernism in areas with rich historical traditions, such as the American South and Ireland. He said his love of

Shelton, a former University of Memphis classmate, contacted him about an opening in the MUS English Department. “I knew the kind of school that MUS was, and obviously you want to go to a place with good students, so that is what drew me here,” he said. In addition to teaching required classes such as American Literature and Junior English Review, Askew put his passions and scholarly expertise into action with senior seminars such as “Literature and War” and “Southern Renaissance Literature.” He has always connected with students, and some of those connections have grown into lifelong friendships. He first supervised Owen Tabor ’85 in seventh-grade study hall, then coached him in eighth-grade basketball, and taught him in junior and senior English classes. Askew attended Tabor’s wedding to Jeannie in Charlottesville, NC, and now he is teaching their son, Sherman ’15. “Coach Askew was, and is, an all-star in the Dream Team that is the MUS English Department,” Owen Tabor said. “He encouraged you to reach, to think, to expand. It was okay to fail, as long as you tried. He treated us like we were interesting young men, worthy of having a real conversation with him, in class or out.”

Askew points the way on a country road outside of Galway, Ireland. Lin and Sally Askew, right, their son, Charles, and his fiancé, Jaime Derbyshire at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans, a favorite family getaway city.

writers James Joyce, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, and William Butler Yeats is based on “the interplay of culture and history.” He continued his studies at the University of Memphis, earning a master’s degree in British literature. After graduation Askew took a job at the American Cancer Society as director of public and professional education, a position that helped boost his interpersonal skills. “I’m sort of a shy person, and that job forced me to get out and talk,” he said. Three years later English instructor Terry 42

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Lin Askew, Elizabeth Crosby, and her husband, Eric Barnes, at Kylemore Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland.

For Askew it is not an act: “I care about them. It’s like they’re all my sons, in a sense,” he said. His actual family is also part of the MUS family. Wife, Sally Askew, is an English instructor in the Hull Lower School, and they have two sons, Will ’97 and Charles ’05. Will, a former pitcher in the San Diego Padres organization, works in production at Flinn Broadcasting in Memphis. In April 2012 Will and his wife, Christy, gave the Askews their first grandchild, William. Charles is a Fitch Ratings credit analyst in New York City, engaged to Jaime Derbyshire.

F A C U L T Y “MUS has been bound up in my life – it really has,” Askew said. Indeed, the school has enabled one of his passions – traveling to explore the connections between literature and history, especially in Ireland and France. “I am a Francophile and an hibernophile. I think I’m trying to atone for my Anglo-Saxon roots and how we treated the Irish,” he said. His most memorable teaching experience, which included his son Charles, was the 2004 MUS in Europe course on the Irish Literary Renaissance. The class centered on authors and traditions he cherished, and he spent three years preparing for the trip – researching destinations, planning the itinerary, and crafting the syllabus. He has led three other MUS in Europe trips, and he is pondering a journey to Western Ireland, packed with emerald countryside vistas, rugged ocean cliffs, and a “hauntingly lone-

Askew and his wife, Sally, explore the Ring of Kerry in County Kerry, Ireland.

At the Gap of Dunloe, County Kerry, Ireland, Lin Askew stops to admire the scenery with, from left, his son, Will; Will’s wife, Christy; Askew’s wife, Sally; and Barbara Crippen, former instructor in English.

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some, beautiful” hotel in Connemara where Yeats spent his honeymoon. Travel also enriches the classes he teaches on campus, such as this semester’s Irish Literature senior seminar, in which he brings his experiences in Ireland to bear – even playing Irish pub music as the students take their seats. “A sense of place and history is so important in Irish literature that I can’t really overestimate it. Especially for Yeats to talk about Ben Bulben, Knocknarea, Rosses Point – places that crop up in his poetry – is fantastic.” Over the years Askew has stepped outside the classroom to assume coaching duties. As a basketball coach he led the eighth-grade team to an undefeated season in 1980-81. He also coached golf for 15 seasons, guiding the 1991 and 1994 teams to state championships. However, he downplayed this task as “more coordination and scheduling than coaching.” Perhaps the most surprising foray outside the classroom was Askew’s tenure as the director of admissions from 1995 to 2005. “Ellis Haguewood asked me to be the admissions director, and I was intrigued by that idea,” he said. “Enrollment numbers were down, and I wanted to see if I could make a difference.”

Askew with Dr. Reginald Dalle at La Giraudière in France’s Loire Valley

Under Askew’s leadership enrollment numbers rebounded. After a decade serving in Admissions, he felt a longing to return to the classroom and the collegial atmosphere he so enjoyed. “The quality of the students is top-notch, and the Honor System really works to encourage friendships between the faculty and the students,” Askew said. The forging of these connections still drives Askew’s efforts. “Whenever I get in the classroom, I just get energized,” he said. “I love to share my passion with the students. What could be more fun than teaching and seeing students learn to truly appreciate what you love?”

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GATES, MULLINS HONORED WITH TAIS AWARDS Mrs. Nancy Gates, right, chair of the Math Department, and Mr. Wayne Mullins, instructor in physics, were honored with the 2012 Hubert Smothers Award at the Tennessee Association of Independent Schools Biennial Conference this November. They were among only four teachers statewide to receive the award, which honors educators who demonstrate longevity (at least 20 years teaching), long-term impact on students, leadership in extracurricular activities, unselfish dedication to student development, and influence that goes beyond the school walls, improving education in the wider community. COACH PETERS HONORED WITH PORTRAIT A portrait of former instructor and varsity basketball head coach Jerry Peters will hang in the Campus Center of Memphis University School. As varsity basketball coach, Peters’ teams won more than 1,000 games and the 2007 state championship during his legendary 52-year career. At a January unveiling ceremony attended by former players, fellow coaches, friends, and family, Peters gave an emotional message of thanks. 44

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“I simply love the school. I looked forward to every day and coming to work,” he said. “God has blessed me in many ways – too many ways to enumerate.” Hosted by the MUS Alumni Executive Board, the reception included remarks by Ellis Haguewood, headmaster; Barry Ray, Upper School principal; Jonny Ballinger ’87, Alumni Executive Board president; Matt Bakke, current head basketball coach; and former standout player Jimmy Ogle ’70. They related stories of Peters as a coach, a teacher, an administrator, and a mentor. “My time here at MUS with Coach Peters has made me a better teacher, a better coach, and a better person,” Bakke said. “There’s only one Coach Peters, and his influence and impact on the game of basketball and the players he coached will live on forever.” “[Peters] is the consummate team player,” Haguewood said. “He always put the good of the school first.” Peters came to MUS in 1960 and was named varsity coach in 1964. In addition to coaching he was a full-time teacher of history, government, and international studies. He garnered numerous MUS awards, including the Jean Barbee Hale Service Award, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the John M. Nail Outstanding Teaching Award. Peters was the first to hold

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WILLIE CRAFT RETIRES AFTER 23 YEARS Willie Craft was a friendly, familiar face at MUS for 23 years. He began his retirement from his career in the Maintenance Department in August 2012. Willie Hollinger, director of facilities, said it was a pleasure working with Craft. “He is honest, dependable, and would always be here – rain, sleet, or snow,” Hollinger said. “Anytime I called him on the radio he would quickly reply, letting me know he was on the way or would take care of the problem. He’s also young at heart and would volunteer to do things like work the Friday night dance for the Lower School.” He was recognized during a faculty and staff luncheon, where Hollinger recalled his earliest memories of Craft, the man who took the time to show him around the campus when he first arrived. “I started at MUS nine years ago as director of facilities, and Mr. Craft had been here longer than anyone in the department,” Hollinger said. “When I’d ask him where things were, even if I

F A C U L T Y just needed to know where a valve was, he would say, ‘I’ll have to show you.’” Headmaster Ellis Haguewood presented Craft with a plaque honoring his work. “The thing I noticed about Willie over the years is that he is always punctual, reliable, and dependable, and he provides great service for the school,” Haguewood said. “We will miss him.” Craft said he enjoyed working at the school and that he will come back to visit. In the meantime, he said he has his fishing pole ready. DOUG PERKINS NAMED LYNN CHAIR OF HISTORY To Doug Perkins history is not merely a record of the past. It’s also a guide for navigating the future. “The quote, ‘You don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been’ is very true,” he said. “There is so much you can learn about the human condition by studying history.” With his deep appreciation for the subject, Perkins was a natural choice for the Ross McCain Lynn Chair of History. “With this chair I am happy to recognize Mr. Perkins as the extraordinary teacher and scholar that he is,” Ellis Haguewood, headmaster, said. “He holds his students to the highest standards,

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and he demands the best of himself every day.” Jonathan Large, instructor in history, echoed the sentiment: “Mr. Perkins’ encyclopedic knowledge of and enthusiasm for history is matched only by his determination to serve his students and fellow teachers. He is truly a scholar and a gentleman.” Perkins came by this interest naturally – his mother was a history professor at the University of Dayton, and family vacations often included stops at historical sites. He came to see history as a collection of fantastic stories. The Civil War era was the first period to intrigue him, but now he enjoys delving into any historical topic. He earned a bachelor’s from St. Joseph’s College in Indiana and a master’s in history from the University of Memphis. He began his teaching career at Memphis Catholic High School, where he also coached basketball, before joining the Memphis City Schools system, teaching at Frayser, Oakhaven, Central, and Ridgeway. Now in his seventh year at MUS, he chairs the Department of History and teaches Advanced Placement European History and Honors American History. During his career he has taught AP American History, Honors World History, and Honors Government and Economics. His students score well above the national average on AP tests.

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Perkins serves as faculty advisor for the school’s History Club, assists with the Knowledge Bowl team, and helps with student-led Special Olympics events. “I’m honored by this recognition, particularly because of Lynn’s important role in the school’s history,” Perkins said. “I feel extremely privileged to be teaching at MUS.” A patron of MUS established the chair in 1964 in honor of Col. Ross M. Lynn, headmaster of the school from 1955-1978.

Ruth Peters and former varsity basketball head coach Jerry Peters with former players Jimmy Ogle ’70, Tom Berdeja ’70, and Gayden Drew ’71. MUS TODAY

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ALBERT M. ALEXANDER, SR. Mrs. Claire K. Farmer ROBERT GOODWIN ALLEN, JR. ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Webster McDonald ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. Wellford ’69 ELISHA W. ATKINSON, SR. Mrs. Claire K. Farmer CLAIRE B. AUSTIN Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mrs. Katharine Manning Loeb Mr. Robert E. Loeb ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Smith III ’60 WILLIAM MCNEILL AYRES, JR. ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Hughes Mayo III ’70 EDGAR H. BAILEY Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Akins, Sr., and Family Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mrs. Nancy W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 PALMER K. BARTLETT, SR. Mr. and Mrs. Gray W. Bartlett ’90 Mrs. Lillian D. Dunavant

HARRY I. BASS Mr. and Mrs. Pearce W. Hammond, Jr. ’86 DAVID L. BENNETT, JR. 2013 MUS Baseball Team Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell JUDY BOUCEK Mr. Ronald L. Boucek SAM BERRY BLAIR, SR. Mr. and Mrs. R. Hunter Humphreys, Sr. ’70 ABE BLINDMAN Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood EDWARD M. BOYER II Dr. and Mrs. R. Louis Adams ’70 and Mr. Hunter D. Adams ’06 Dr. and Mrs. Edward Atkinson III ’73 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood MUS TODAY

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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Jensen, Miss Kathryne Jenson, and Mr. Lawrence K. Jensen, Jr. ’07 Mrs. Diana B. Moore Mr. and Mrs. J. Courtnay Rudolph III ’77, Miss Taylor A. Rudolph, and Mr. Jacob C. Rudolph IV ’10 LEE BREAZEALE Mrs. Ann Clark Harris BROWN S. BROOKS ’81 Dr. and Mrs. Brown Brooks FORREST N. BURNETT Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mr. and Mrs. David L. Simpson IV ’80 Mrs. Elizabeth L. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Dr. and Mrs. Owen B. Tabor, Jr. ’85 ROBERT CADY Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bobbitt Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Kirsch and Mr. Philip Kirsch ’98 Ms. Leigh Hollingsworth Miesse Mr. and Mrs. J. Courtnay Rudolph III ’77 and Mr. Jacob C. Rudolph IV ’10 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr. RONALD W. CALLAN, JR. ’90 Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Bradford II ’90

JOHN BARRY BARTON, SR. ’68 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer

BONNIE ROBERTS CASE Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mrs. Jean L. Saunders

JASON L. CRABB ’91 Lt. Colonel Trevor B. Benitone ’91 Mr. J. Alexander Crabb ’93 Colonel and Mrs. Ollie H. Edwards Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mrs. Ann Clark Harris Mrs. Jean K. Parrott Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell JANIE PEETE CROOK AND JERE LAWRENCE CROOK, JR. Dr. Jere L. Crook III ’63 V. GLENN CROSBY Mr. and Mrs. Ben C. Adams ’74 Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Allen S. Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. P. Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. ’65 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Grayson, Jr. ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Hickman ’76 Mr. Robert E. Loeb ’73 Mr. and Mrs. James C. Rainer III Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mrs. Nancy W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Stockley, Jr. ’76 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Wetter, Jr. ’70 Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr. DR. AND MRS. V. GLENN CROSBY Mr. Judson L. Peters ’81 FREDERICK L. DALE Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hopper Mr. W. L. Crews Wellford ’12 Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr.

KEITH A. CHRISTENBURY ’81 Mr. Judson L. Peters ’81

BRUNO DALLE Dr. and Mrs. Reginald A. Dalle Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell

WILLIAM N. CHRISTENBURY Mr. and Mrs. E. Hope Brooks III ’80

ROBERT DAVIS Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr.

LAWRENCE L. COHEN Mr. and Mrs. Nelson F. Freeburg, Jr. ’69 Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Miller III and Mr. Andrew H. Miller II ’13 Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 Mrs. Nancy W. Smith

JEAN S. DERN Mr. Ryan S. Freebing ’05

CHRISTY AKERS CONLEE Mr. Perry D. Dement LOTTIE COVINGTON Mr. and Mrs. Gideon L. Scoggin ’95

W. CHAPMAN DEWEY ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick Dr. and Mrs. Paul R. Deaton ’79 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mrs. SoRhym Lee and Mr. Scott A. Snyder ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Thompson, Jr.

* Includes gifts received Dec. 16, 2011 – April 24, 2013. We apologize for this long time period for acknowledging gifts, which occurred during personnel changes. With this issue of MUS Today, we are back on track for timely recognition.

MARIANNE DICKSON Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III HART G. DILLARD Lt. Colonel George J. Whitlock ’70 JERE M. DISNEY Mr. and Mrs. David R. Disney ’85 WAYNE E. DUFF Mr. Lee R. Dickinson ’91 Mr. C. Barham Ray, Jr. ’99 MARGARET ANN EIKNER Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mrs. Ann Clark Harris and Mr. Ray Eberle Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hopper Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy W. Jonakin Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Quinn Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mrs. Judy A. Rutledge Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr.

MYRON A. HALLE, SR. Mr. Robert M. Halle ’76 DOROTHY ALLEN HALLIDAY Mr. and Mrs. James H. Barton ’61 Mr. and Mrs. C. Whitney Brown, Jr. ’77 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Burnett ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Carney, Jr. Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Cook, Sr., Whit, Phillip ’00, Josh, and Minor Faye and Skip Daniel Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Lillian D. Dunavant Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. A. Rankin Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. John H. Grayson, Jr. ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. Judson L. Peters ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 SunTrust Bank Mr. and Mrs. William S. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Wade, Sr. ’84 MARY REMBERT HAMMOND Mr. and Mrs. David H. Cunningham ’68 BILLY HARKINS Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Dr. and Mrs. John E. Harkins

MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM D. EVANS, JR. ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Evans

THOMAS E. HARRISON Mr. and Mrs. W. Hunter Hasen ’99 Ensign Austin K. Hulbert ’01 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Lawhorn, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. W. Alexander Lawhorn ’03, and Mr. John David Lawhorn ’05

JOHN THOMAS FISHER II Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr.

WILLIAM R. HATCHETT Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Thompson, Jr.

JOHN EDWARD FOLEY, SR. Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Lonergan III

PEGGY HAYLES Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Hayles III ’89

NELSON F. FREEBURG, SR. Mr. John H. Keesee ’69

WALTER GREER HAYNES Mr. and Mrs. Cecil A. Godman III ’78

LOUISE GEORGE Mr. and Mrs. B. Clayton George ’79

CHARLES HENDERSON Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell

NITA GILSTRAP Mr. Perry D. Dement

BETTY WINFREY HINES Mrs. Diana B. Moore

DAVID S. GINGOLD ’68 Dr. and Mrs. R. Louis Adams ’70 Mrs. Nancy W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. C. Swift Treadwell, Jr. ’68

RANDALL L. HOLCOMB ’03 Mr. William H. Adams ’03 Mr. Preston T. W. Blankenship ’03 Mr. Chaseton R. Carlisle ’03 Dr. Carolyn M. Chesney and Dr. Thomas M. Chesney Mr. Perry D. Dement Dr. and Mrs. H. Cannon Doan Mr. Hays C. Doan ’05 Mrs. Lillian D. Dunavant The Richard A. Faber Family Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Fisher ’72 The Reverend William D. Flowers III ’03 Mr. Marshall P. Goldsmith ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Dr. and Mrs. Randall L. Holcomb Mr. and Mrs. Joel L. Iglehart ’03 Mrs. Anne Morrow Jones Ms. Mary Kyle Mr. William C. Lawson ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. McClure ’69 Mr. G. Hite McLean III ’03

WILLIAM C. GRAVES, JR. 1912 Mr. William C. Graves III JOHN J. GROGAN Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro, Miss Elizabeth Ansbro, and Mr. William F. Ansbro ’14 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer MARY CUNDIFF GUNN Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III

* Includes gifts received Dec. 16, 2011 – April 24, 2013.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Hite McLean, Jr. Mr. Leland M. McNabb, Jr. ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Nenon, Jr. ’03 OrthoMemphis PC Mr. Douglas L. Owings Mr. Douglas L. Owings, Jr. ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Parr Mr. John Phillips V ’03 Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Safley, Jr. Miss Katie Siegal Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Stemmler ’97 Miss Megan Stout Mr. Henry B. Talbot ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Thompson, Jr. Miss Jeanne Whitehead

DONALD S. HOLM III Mr. and Mrs. Ben C. Adams ’74 Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph Muller and Mr. Louis S. Muller ’02 JOSEPH E. JOHNSON ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. Wellford ’69 MILNOR JONES Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr. W. WISE JONES, SR. Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Akins, Sr., and Family Mrs. Claire K. Farmer CHARLIE KELLEY Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 JANET R. KNAFF Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood KATHRYN KNAFF Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer and Ms. Kristen Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Molasky Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr. PATRICIA CHADWICK LAMAR Mrs. Nancy W. Smith JOHN H. LAMMONS, JR. ’74 Dr. and Mrs. Edward Atkinson III ’73 Dr. Lea Gilliland and Dr. Charles A. Gilliland IV ’95 Mr. and Mrs. W. Vinton Lawson III ’77 Mrs. Ann G. Salky Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Tribble, Jr. ’77 ROSS M. LYNN Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. Mr. Skip Daniel Mr. Arthur J. Fisher ’73 ZENAIDA DELEON MAKAPUGAY Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell JERRY B. MARTIN, SR. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. Ogilby ’88 ANGELÉ K. MCCLURE Mr. James McClure, Jr.

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Memorials and Honorariums BETTIE MCGOWAN Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood

CHALMERS F. REA Mr. Perry D. Dement

ELEANOR JANE MCSWAIN Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hopper

SCOTT M. REMBERT ’70 Lt. Colonel George J. Whitlock ’70

STEVEN C. MINKIN ’65 Dr. and Mrs. Bruce I. Minkin ’69

STEPHEN H. RHEA, JR. ’68 Dr. Carolyn M. Chesney and Dr. Thomas M. Chesney Mr. and Mrs. W. Stuart Dornette ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Cleo W. Stevenson, Jr. ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Z. Ames Yeates ’68

BARBARA S. MORRIS Mrs. Claire K. Farmer LOYAL W. MURPHY III Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant Burke Dr. and Mrs. James H. Burke Mr. Skip Daniel Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hopper Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy W. Jonakin Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Quinn Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mrs. Judy A. Rutledge Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Swift Treadwell, Jr. ’68 and Family Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr.

RITA HALPIN SATTERFIELD Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer

CARTER LEE MURRAY ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Buddenbohm Mr. Duncan M. Chesney ’92 Mr. and Mrs. W. Seldon Murray III

ROBERT G. SNOWDEN Mr. J. Bayard Snowden ’68

MARK NEEL Mrs. Stacey J. Neel F. COLE NICHOLS ’81 Mr. Judson L. Peters ’81 FRANK M. NORFLEET Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mrs. Katharine Manning Loeb Mr. Robert E. Loeb ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 JERROLD W. OMUNDSON Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. Meyer ’81 Dr. and Mrs. Bernhardt L. Trout ’86 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Weinberg W. WILEY O’NEAL III ’68 Mr. and Mrs. C. Curtis Taylor III ’68 SCOTT D. PATTERSON ’81 Mr. Brett Patterson Mr. Judson L. Peters ’81 LEROY PERRY Mrs. Augusta Perry BRYANT B. PHILLIPS Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Fisher ’72 BILL PREST Mr. and Mrs. George B. Ellis DONALD A. RAMIER III ’74 Mr. and Mrs. H. Barham Rogers ’77 48

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ALAN H. SAWYER Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mrs. Ann Clark Harris and Mr. W. Clayton Harris III ’01 Mrs. Thomas H. Hutton, Sr. WALTER SCOTT III ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott, Jr. VIVIAN WALKER SIMS Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker Sims ’74 LUCILLE “BONNIE” VARE SMITH Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick

SUE JOYNER SPRUNT Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood CLEO W. STEVENSON, SR. Mr. and Mrs. Cleo W. Stevenson, Jr. ’68 HERBERT LEON TATE, JR. Mr. and Mrs. M. Vincent Mutzi EDMUND D. TAYLOR ’62 Mr. and Mrs. W. Wood Taylor III ’83 JACK H. TAYLOR, JR. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. John P. Mercer Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. W. Sledge Taylor III JACK H. TAYLOR, SR. Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Batey Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant Burke Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Chamberlain Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. and Ms. Andrew F. Saunders III Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 WILLIAM W. TAYLOR, JR. ’59 Mr. Howard W. Ellis, Jr. ’59 Mr. and Mrs. W. Wood Taylor III ’83 BRYAN D. THOMPSON ’76 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Kirby Woods Garden Club Mr. and Mrs. W. Vinton Lawson III ’77 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Stockley, Jr. ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey G. Webb

* Includes gifts received Dec. 16, 2011 – April 24, 2013.

NORMAN S. THOMPSON, SR. Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Akins, Sr., and Family Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. and Mrs. James D. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III D. EUGENE THORN Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. Jostens, Inc. ROBERT E. TIPTON, JR. ’09 Mr. and Mrs. J. Stephen Atkins Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Bell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bellingrath III Mrs. Bernice H. Hussey and Dr. C. Hal Brunt Mr. Conner Buckley and Family Mr. and Mrs. Phil Burnett Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Campbell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar C. Carr III Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Carruthers II ’78 Dr. and Mrs. George A. Coors Mr. and Mrs. Chris A. Cornaghie Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Crump III ’63 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. James K. Dobbs III ’61 Mrs. Lillian D. Dunavant Dr. Tommie S. Dunavant and Mr. William B. Dunavant, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Dunavant III ’78 Mr. and Mrs. L. Edwin Eleazer, Jr. ’66 Mr. and Mrs. George B. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Ellis III Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Erwin III Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Dr. Deborah T. Ferguson and Dr. E. Scott Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Graham Fulton Mr. and Mrs. P. Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gusmus Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. John J. Heflin III, Mr. J. Robertson Heflin ’05, and Mr. John F. Heflin ’08 Dr. and Mrs. Haywood H. Henderson, Jr. Mr. Chris Hill Ms. Barbara Rogers Hoover Dr. and Mrs. Allen H. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. J. Fraser Humphreys, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Hurst, Jr. Mrs. Judy Hurst Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy W. Jonakin Mr. and Mrs. L. Donald Jordan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Krauch, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James H. Landers Mrs. Katharine Manning Loeb Mr. Robert E. Loeb ’73 Mr. and Mrs. William Loveless Mr. and Mrs. W. Neely Mallory, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Maroda, Jr. ’75 and Family Mr. and Mrs. George M. Moreland, Mr. G. Hays Moreland ’15, and Miss Meredith Moreland Mr. and Mrs. Allen B. Morgan, Jr. ’60 Mr. and Mrs. D. Stephen Morrow ’71 National Museum of Women in the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Perry Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pharr Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pugh Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reed Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Roberts Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Steven T. Rutledge Mr. and Mrs. W. Reid Sanders, Sr. ’67 Mr. and Mrs. R. Clinton Saxton

Memorials and Honorariums

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Schadt ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Smith, Jr. ’66 Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Sullivant, Jr. ’70 Margaret and Owen Tabor Mrs. Deborah Dunklin Tipton Dr. Robert E. Tipton Dr. and Mrs. C. Ferrell Varner, Jr. ’60 Waddell & Associates, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Welch Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 The Honorable and Mrs. Harry W. Wellford Ms. Ann R. White Mr. and Mrs. John K. Wilbourn ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Bailey L. Wiener, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Jason S. Willett Mr. and Mrs. James D. Witherington, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm B. Wood ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Kent Wunderlich ’66

C. SWIFT TREADWELL, SR. Dr. Daniel F. Fisher, Jr. ’68 EARLINE TROUTT Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood JUDGE JEROME TURNER The Honorable and Mrs. Harry W. Wellford JOHN F. TWARDZICK Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Twardzik and Mr. Richard J. Twardzik ’11 LILBURNE MIDDLETON VOLLMER Major and Mrs. Michael M. Howard ’82 FRANK W. WADE Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 HAROLD D. WALKER, JR. ’66 Mrs. Eugenia Walker ROBERT J. WALLACE Mrs. Diana B. Moore CHRISTA G. WARNER Commander and Mrs. William M. Gotten, Jr. ’90 SUZANNE WARREN Dr. Donna M. Dabov, Dr. Gregory D. Dabov, and Mr. David W. Dabov THOMAS DOYLE WEEMS Anonymous JANICE SMITH WESTBROOK Mr. and Mrs. Brandon L. Westbrook ’92 JAMES DAVID WILKINSON, JR. Dr. Robert H. Winfrey Jr. RICHARD WADE ZAMBETTI Mr. James R. Shelton ’01

IN HONOR OF BRADFORD A. ADAMS ’78 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Adams STUART C. ADAMS ’80 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Adams BOBBY A. ALSTON Lieutenant Michele H. Alston and Lieutenant Andrew L. Alston ’07

JOHN P. ARKLE III ’84 Mrs. Kathleen D. Norfleet

THORNTON W. BROOKSBANK, JR. ’14 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Davis, Jr.

JOHN P. ARKLE IV ’15 Mrs. Kathleen D. Norfleet

SAMUEL R. BUCKNER ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Buckner

WILLIAM L. ASKEW III Anonymous

BAILEY H. BUFORD ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Crawley

E. WEBSTER AUSTIN ’17 Mrs. Lawrence L. Cohen

JAMES F. BURNETT, JR. ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Forrest N. Burnett

L. D. SELBY AUSTIN ’13 Mrs. Lawrence L. Cohen

MICHAEL K. CARRIER, JR. ’15 Mr. and Mrs. William Carrier

EMILY A. BAER Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03

J. ALEXANDER CARRUTHERS ’15 Mrs. James E. Harwood III

MATTHEW D. BAKKE Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro

SETH A. CARSON ’13 Lt. Colonel and Mrs. William L. Stone

BAKER A. BALL ’15 Mrs. Herschel Anderson Graves, Jr.

JOSEPH H. CARTER ’18 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Dunavant III ’78

WARREN N. BALL III ’13 Mrs. Herschel Anderson Graves, Jr.

CAMDEN R. CLAYTON ’18 Mrs. Robert Russum

L. HALL BALLINGER III ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Lynn H. Ballinger

CLASS OF 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Ned Smith ’60

TERRY D. BALTON Anonymous

MOTHERS OF THE CLASS OF 1960 Dr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Patterson, Sr. ’60

REED T. BARNES ’16 The Reverend Senter Crook and Dr. Joe McFadden Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Taylor

CLASS OF 1983 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ballinger ’83

E. WALTER BARNETT, JR. ’09 Mrs. Marvin W. Barnett, Sr. JAMES A. BEDWELL ’14 Dr. Kim M. Huch and Dr. Charles L. Bedwell BLAKE A. BENNETT ’14 Mr. and Mrs. David L. Bennett, Jr. ERIC A. BERMAN Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 MICHAEL C. BETHELL, JR. ’18 Dr. Jean L. Johnson DANIEL C. BLACK ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Stevan L. Black, Sr. W. STEVENSON BLEDSOE, JR. ’70 Dr. and Mrs. George B. Elder A. ROBERT BOELTE, JR. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75

CLASS OF 1986 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. McArtor, Sr. ’86 CLASS OF 2003 Mr. Jeffrey W. Posson ’03 MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2013 IN HER FIRST 7TH GRADE ENGLISH CLASS: J. WILLIAMS ABSTON, T. PETERS ABSTON, JARED I. ASHKENAZ, JAMES E. BELINA, DANIEL B. BRITTON, JOHN T. CREWS III, JEFFERSON K. DOUGLAS, FORREST C. FIELD, COLE A. FLEMMONS, WILLIAM H. HOEHN, S. SRUJAN JAMPANA RAJU, ARJUN KHARBANDA, JACKSON M. LOEB, TAYLOR R. MARTIN, CALEB J. MCCOY, UTKARSH MISHRA, SAMUEL A. MOORE, CHARLES L. OGLES III, JAMES T. RANTZOW, JR., ANDREW J. RAVES, REMINGTON J. REA, W. FORT ROBINSON, S. JACOBS RUDESILL, ROBERT C. SCOTT, EDWARD L. SIMPSON, JR., SYLVESTER TATE II, DERRICK D. WALKER Mrs. Sally A. Askew

JOHN HUNTLEY BRAND ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Golwen

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2013 IN HIS HOMEROOM CLASS: J. WILLIAMS ABSTON, PHILIP M. AIKEN, L. D. SELBY AUSTIN, MARSHALL M. CLARK, CHRISTOPHER K. EVANS II, W. BUCKNER HASENMUELLER, WILLIAM H. HOEHN, ANDREW J. HUTSON, ARBRE D. JONES, BRYAN P. LUTTRELL, ZACHARY J. OLSEN, REMINGTON J. REA, JORDAN T. RODGERS, SAMUEL M. SHANKMAN, AND JESSE P. WILCOX Mr. William L. Askew III

RICHARD C. BROER Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis

CHANDLER M. CLAYTON ’16 Mrs. Robert Russum

WINSTON B. BROOKS ’87 Dr. and Mrs. Brown Brooks

VICTOR A. COLE II ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Ellison

JEREMY A. BOSHWIT ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Jerold L. Klein JOYCE BRADY Dr. Donald W. Brady ’82

WILLIAM F. ANSBRO ’14 Mrs. Van Pritchartt, Jr.

L. BRITT COLCOLOUGH ’12 Dr. and Mrs. Louis G. Britt * Includes gifts received Dec. 16, 2011 – April 24, 2013.

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Memorials and Honorariums C. TATE CONRAD ’92 Mrs. Sammy Ann Marshall

BENJAMIN S. ELLIOTT ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Elliott

TIMOTHY S. GREER Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro

MARK S. COUNCE ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro

SPENCER F. ESCUE ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Escue

MR. AND MRS. J. BRETT GRINDER ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro

ELIZABETH M. CROSBY Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III

ANDREW S. EVANS ’14 Mrs. A. Farris Evans, Sr.

MARCUS AARON GRONAUER ’17 Ms. Sylvia Gronauer

MICHAEL B. FABER ’96 Carol B. Hinchin Fund

N. SPENCER GRUBER ’12 Mrs. Lynn W. Gruber

ROBERT A. FABER ’98 Carol B. Hinchin Fund

JAMES R. HALL III ’05 Dr. Anne W. Connell

DANIEL L. CUNNINGHAM ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Walker W. Graham

CLAIRE K. FARMER Mrs. Kathy Daniel Patterson Mrs. Jean L. Saunders

W. C. CONNELL HALL ’08 Dr. Anne W. Connell

DAVID W. DABOV ’16 Mr. and Mrs. David W. Dabov

WILLIAM B. FARNSWORTH ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Farnsworth, Jr.

ELLIS L. HAGUEWOOD Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 Mrs. Julia McDonald

REGINALD A. DALLE Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03

HUNTER C. FINNEY ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D. Finney

PEGGY AND ELLIS HAGUEWOOD Mrs. Sally Baer

BENJAMIN L. DANIEL, JR. ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Lundy W. Daniel

ROBERT H. FISHER III ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Ochs

BEN D. HALE Mr. and Mrs. D. Scott Hale ’78

B. FREDERICK DANIELSON ’17 Mrs. Nancy W. Danielson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ehrlicher

MATTHEW L. FOGELMAN ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Avron B. Fogelman

ALLEN P. HALLIDAY ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Cook, Sr., Whit, Phillip ’00, Josh, and Minor

AUSTIN C. DARR ’15 Ms. Carolyn T. Darr

PROCTOR K. FORD ’15 Mr. and Mrs. H. Palmer Proctor

MICHAEL R. DEADERICK Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo J. Heros Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Lawhead

SAMUEL R. FOWLKES ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Meredith S. Luck

WILLIAM P. HALLIDAY III ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Cook, Sr., Whit, Phillip ’00, Josh, and Minor

PERRY D. DEMENT Mrs. Julia C. McDonald Mrs. Jean L. Saunders

THOMAS K. FOWLKES ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Meredith S. Luck

PATRICK R. DEMERE ’15 Ms. Jean W. Demere Mr. Patrick M. Demere

HUGH FRANCIS III ’76 Dr. Lea Gilliland and Dr. Charles A. Gilliland IV ’95

MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM J. CROSBY Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Crosby ’89 ROBERT M. CRUMP IV ’17 Mr. Robert M. Crump III

J. M. TULLY DICKEN ’14 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dicken, Sr. HENRY T. DICKINSON ’11 Mr. and Mrs. David C. Porteous JACKSON M. DICKINSON ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Hopper Mr. and Mrs. David C. Porteous PATRICK M. DIMENTO, SR. Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 BUCHANAN D. DUNAVANT, JR. ’18 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Dunavant III ’78 WILLIAM B. DUNAVANT, JR. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Rainer III NICHOLAS C. DUNN ’15 Mrs. Dolores Joi Dunn MARY NELL EASUM Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. PHILLIP B. EIKNER ’77 Mr. and Mrs. H. Ray Stallings, Jr. JEFFREY D. ENGELBERG ’94 Carol B. Hinchin Fund 50

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ROBERT W. FUDGE Mr. William M.J. Taylor E. ANDREW GARDELLA ’10 Mr. Craig E. Gardella CHARLES F. GILLILAND ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Gilliland MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM M. GOTTEN ’60 Commander and Mrs. William M. Gotten, Jr. ’90 J. WELLFORD GOULD ’13 Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Gould DAVID M. GRABER II ’17 Mr. and Mrs. H. Stephen Davis III

JOHN E. HARKINS Mr. Jon K. Hampton ’01 JOSHUA N. HAWKINS ’14 Mr. S. Roscoe Hawkins LOWELL G. HAYS IV ’09 Mrs. Trecia R. Hays WILLIAM M. HAYS ’15 Mrs. Trecia R. Hays JOHN R. HENKE ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Henke SAMUEL L. HENKE ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Henke JOSÉ R. HERNÁNDEZ Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro BEBA C. HEROS Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Eason JOHN F. HILTONSMITH Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03

J. WESLEY GRACE ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Wesley G. Grace, Sr.

HENRY S. HOLMES ’17 Mr. John R. Blinn Ms. Caroline B. Nance

WESLEY F. GRACE ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Wesley G. Grace, Sr.

E. JAMES HOUSE IV ’16 Mrs. Jean J. House

GARROTT S. GRAHAM ’12 Mrs. Joseph W. Graham, Sr. Mr. John F. Stone

JOHN WALKER HUFFMAN ’17 Mrs. Charles Huffman

RANDOLPH W. GRAVES ’77 Mr. William C. Graves III * Includes gifts received Dec. 16, 2011 – April 24, 2013.

WILLIAM D. HUFFMAN ’18 Mrs. Charles Huffman ALEXANDER M. HUMPHREYS ’18 Dr. Anne W. Connell

Memorials and Honorariums J. GILLILAND HUMPHREYS ’16 Dr. Anne W. Connell

MARTIN W. LIFER III ’79 Mrs. Martin W. Lifer, Jr.

JAMES M. MORROW, JR. ’18 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Morrow

DENISE B. HUNT Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mrs. Jean L. Saunders

JAMES BALTON LONG ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Long

MICAH M. MURDOCK ’17 Ms. Nancy Murdock

STEWART D. LOVE ’15 Mr. and Mrs. J. Larry Dixon

LOYAL W. MURPHY IV ’86 Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03

GRAYSON M. LYNN ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowlin

WILLIAM F. MURRAH ’18 Mrs. Julia Williams Manning

KAMAR R. A. MACK ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. White

MUS BASKETBALL CHEERLEADERS Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Harrison

BRITT B. MALLERY ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Monte Brown

THE MUS COMMUNITY Mr. and Mrs. Eric P. Wulf

ROBERT S. MATTHEWS III ’15 Dr. and Mrs. Harry L. Shufflebarger

BRANT L. NEWMAN ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Prewett

THOMAS B. J. MATTHEWS, JR. ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Payson Matthews

JOHN S. NEWMAN ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Bobby F. Newman

WILLIAM D. MATTHEWS Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03

MAURICE R. O’KEEFE III ’16 Mrs. Maurice R. O’Keefe

J. TAYLOR MAYS ’12 Mr. James McClure, Jr.

WILLIAM E. ORGEL ’81 Mr. and Mrs. R. Daniel Mansberg ’83

WILLIAM T. MAYS III ’08 Mr. James McClure, Jr.

RICHARD L. OUYANG ’15 Mr. Judson L. Peters ’81

DOUGLAS H. MCCLEW ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. McClew

T. MATHON PARKER III ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Ridolphi, Jr.

LUCIUS D. JORDAN IV ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Lucius D. Jordan, Jr.

J. JUSTIN MCCLURE ’81 Mr. James McClure, Jr.

DEVIN L. PERRY ’14 Ms. Augusta Perry

JOHN M. KAKALES ’16 Dr. and Mrs. Charles Harbison

W. CARTER MCFERRIN ’15 Mr. and Mrs. William P. McFerrin

D. TALMADGE KEEL IV ’14 Mrs. Hal P. Bailey, Jr.

NORRIS W. MCGEHEE ’81 Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr.

HENRY C. KEEL ’16 Mrs. Hal P. Bailey, Jr.

STEPHEN S. MCHUGH, JR. ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Alvis C. Henderson, Jr.

REBECCA M. KEEL Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mulroy

J. LAWRENCE MCRAE ’70 Ms. Debra McRae

BRIAN K. KELSEY ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kelsey

HAYDEN L. MEACHAM ’15 Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Meacham III

H. JERRY PETERS Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Hickman ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Kirsch and Mr. Philip Kirsch ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Lawhead Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Russell ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Mrs. Josephine Schaeffer Mr. William Nugent Treadwell ’68 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Watson ’76

R. CARRINGTON KELSEY, JR. ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kelsey

JAKE L. MESKIN ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Perl

GARY E. KENNEDY, JR. ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Will E. Stafford

EDWARD W. MILLER, JR. ’86 Ms. Linda K. Miller

EVAN D. KNAFF ’16 Mr. and Mrs. John J. Knaff, Jr.

WILLIAM C. MILLER ’18 Ms. Linda K. Miller

JOHN J. KNAFF III Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro

JAMES B. MITCHUM ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Burkhalter

JONATHAN M. LARGE Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro Mr. and Mrs. Marshall A. Clark ’77

JACKSON P. MOODY ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. Moody

MORGAN A. HUNT ’12 Mrs. James T. Palmer JUDITH W. HURST Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 EDWIN T. HUSSEY ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Ray U. Tanner J. WELLS JACKSON, JR. ’13 Mrs. Susan D. Malone MICHAEL T. JACOBS ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Jacobs JAMES R. JENKINS III ’18 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Jenkins Mrs. Teresa Leary Jenkins ANDREW L. JONES ’97 Mrs. Margaret L. Samdahl MICHAEL P. JONES ’01 Mrs. Margaret L. Samdahl S. PIERCE JONES ’15 Dr. Ann Jarratt and Dr. James Jarratt Mr. and Mrs. Stan R. Jones

ANN H. LAUGHLIN Mrs. Jean L. Saunders LAURA T. LAWRENCE Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro PHILIP A. LEWIS ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Hal F. Lewis

G. HAYS MORELAND ’15 Mrs. George M. Moreland III Mrs. Betty Lee Robison Mrs. Carol Ann Moreland DAVID G. MORELOCK Dr. and Mrs. Albert A. Varner ’65 * Includes gifts received Dec. 16, 2011 – April 24, 2013.

JASON E. PETERS ’88 Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 RUTH AND JERRY PETERS Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick WESLEY S. PHILLIPS ’02 Mrs. Anne R. Phillips M. VAN PUTMAN, JR. ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Mason Ezzell L. WILKINSON RAINER ’13 Ms. Marti O. Nichols W. BARRY RAY Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 P. SAMUEL REESE ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Reese JOHN A. RICHMAN ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Richman

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Memorials and Honorariums JACKSON J. ROBERTS ’14 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Roberts

KAREN M. SKAHAN Mrs. Jean L. Saunders

NATHAN M. VOGT ’13 Mrs. Eugene M. McNeely, Jr.

ANDREW C. ROBINSON ’05 Mr. Thomas H. Robinson, Jr. ’00

BRIDGER B. SMITH ’16 Dr. and Mrs. Vincent D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Alan Valerius

JAMES P. WAGGONER, JR. ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Leighton L. LeBoeuf

SHADE W. ROBINSON Mr. Perry D. Dement GLENN E. ROGERS, JR. Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 JORDAN A. ROGERS ’13 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hillis MARJORIE E. ROOSA Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. SALLY AND JEFF ROSENBERG Rabbi and Mrs. Morris Rubinstein J. ANDREW ROUX ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Williams WILKES S. ROWLAND ’18 Ms. Ruth Ann Darby MAYA RUBINSTEIN Rabbi and Mrs. Morris Rubinstein SHARONA AND AARON RUBINSTEIN Rabbi and Mrs. Morris Rubinstein ZOHAR B. RUBINSTEIN ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Paller Rabbi and Mrs. Morris Rubinstein MARK B. RULEMAN ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Day ’74 JAMES D. RUSSELL Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. JOAN F. RYAN Skip Daniel ANDREW F. SAUNDERS III Mr. C. Cody Jameson ’02 FREDERICK C. SCHAEFFER, JR. ’88 Mrs. Frederick C. Schaeffer, Sr.

BRIAN K. SMITH Anonymous O. REID SMITH ’16 Mrs. O. Wendell Smith S. CLAY SMYTHE ’85 Mr. Philip C. Blackett ’03 Anonymous JACKSON S. SOLBERG ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Solberg R. TATE SOLBERG ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Solberg ZACHARY P. SPISAK ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Spisak LUKE C. STALLINGS ’14 Dr. and Mrs. Herman R. Stallings K. PHILLIP STALLS, JR. Mrs. Diana B. Moore HAYDEN A. STARK ’18 Dr. Susan L. Stark and Mr. Sherwood Stark BEN E. STILL ’12 Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Crow Mr. and Mrs. Jon A. Still “THE STRANGERS” Mr. Robert Stephenson SAMUEL D. SUDDARTH III Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro ALBERTA J. SULLIVAN Mrs. Sally A. Askew ALEXANDER K. TAYLOR ’16 Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Taylor

DAVID A. SCHARFF ’15 Mrs. Frederick J. Menz

NORMAN S. THOMPSON, JR. Mr. Jon K. Hampton ’01 Mr. and Mrs. J. Spencer Medford ’89

FREDERICK M. SCHARFF ’13 Mrs. Frederick J. Menz

NOAH H. THOMAS ’13 Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Levinson

MAXWELL W. SCOTT ’17 Ms. Martha Ruth Cooper

S. MCLEAN TODD ’17 Mrs. Leon W. Bell, Jr.

ROBERT C. SCOTT ’13 Ms. Martha Ruth Cooper

DAX A. TORREY ’94 Dr. and Mrs. Michael Paul Berry

SAMUEL M. SHANKMAN ’13 Ms. Rena Shankman

AVERY C. TOSI ’11 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Adams

ANDREW C. SHELTON ’15 Mrs. E. Ronald Jackson

HENRY E. TRAMMELL ’17 Mrs. Katherine G. McClintock

HENRY C. SHELTON IV ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Shelton III ’68

WILLIAM M. TRAMMELL ’13 Mrs. Katherine G. McClintock

WILLIAM W. SHELTON ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Shelton III ’68

C. MACQUEEN TREADWELL ’16 Mrs. Leigh W. MacQueen

EDWARD L. SIMPSON, JR. ’13 Dr. and Mrs. L. Milton Hughes Mrs. David L. Simpson III

RYAN E. TURNER ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Turner

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* Includes gifts received Dec. 16, 2011 – April 24, 2013.

T. WHITMIRE WAGGONER ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Leighton L. LeBoeuf DAVID S. WALLACE III ’16 Mr. and Mrs. David S. Wallace GRAHAM K. WEBB ’18 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Dunavant III ’78 ROBERT L. WEAVER III ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Weaver, Sr. NEAL F. WEINRICH ’99 Dr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Weinrich MR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER W. WELLFORD, JR. ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ansbro WILLIAM T. WEST III ’18 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Dunavant III ’78 Mr. W. Tommy West, Jr. W. STUART WESTLAND ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Tribble, Jr. ’77 WILLIAM D. WHITLEY II ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jones MATTHEW B. H. WILLIAMS ’10 Mrs. Eugene M. McNeely, Jr. SCOTT S. WILLIAMS ’03 Mrs. Camille McNeely Mrs. Eugene M. McNeely, Jr. A. GRIFFIN WILSON ’15 Mrs. James E. Wilson, Jr. F. TYLER WOLF ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Wolf J. ALEXANDER WOLF ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Wolf HENRY M. WOMACK III ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Victor L. Robilio, Jr. JACOB C. WOODMAN ’13 Dr. and Mrs. Maury W. Bronstein BROCK S. WRIGHT ’15 Mrs. Dorothy C. Wright GARY K. WUNDERLICH, JR. ’88 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III CAMERON J. WYATT ’18 Mrs. Jimmie Ann Wyatt CHASE H. WYATT ’14 Mrs. Jimmie Ann Wyatt HARRISON L. YOAKUM Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Blackmon, Jr. WYATT A. YOUNG ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Dewey R. Young II

In Memory of

Virgil Glenn Crosby, M.D. (1934-2012)

Dr. V. Glenn Crosby, a Board of Trustees member from 1984-2002, died on October 13, 2012. A practicing physician in cardiology and thoracic surgery for 30 years, he performed the first Memphis heart transplant in 1985 alongside Dr. James Pate. Crosby studied at Memphis State University, where he met his wife of 52 years, the late Nancy Ann Redfearn. He graduated in 1954 with a degree in pre-medical studies and earned his M.D. at the University of Tennessee in Memphis in 1958. Following an internship in Memphis, he served two years in the Air Force, and then moved with Nancy and their infant son, Glenn ’77, to Iowa City, IA, to complete residencies in general surgery and cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. The couple welcomed two more sons, Mark ’79 and Scott ’82, before returning to Memphis in 1967, where Crosby entered into practice with Dr. Brewster Harrington. “He was a fine guy, a good surgeon, a good person, and nearly always happy,” Harrington told The Commercial Appeal. Soon after returning to Memphis, their fourth son, Andrew ’89, was born, and the family settled into life in East Memphis. They attended Second Presbyterian Church, where Glenn was an elder for many years. He was a member of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Baptist Memorial Hospital from 1967-1999, serving as department chair in 1987. He served on the faculty of the University of Tennessee medical school as associate professor and associate director of resident training in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. He retired from full-time medical practice in 1999. Crosby accepted leadership roles for many professional, educational, and civic associations, including the boards of Presbyterian Day School and Trezevant Episcopal Home. However, for the Salvation Army he was a foot-soldier, ringing a bell for the Christmas red kettle campaigns, which Nancy oversaw. Elected as a trustee on the Memphis University School Board on April 4, 1984, Crosby was a longtime member of the Education Committee, served on the Technology Committee, and he was very active in the mid-90’s on the board task force dealing with the role of religion at MUS. Nancy and Glenn Crosby were founding members of the D. Eugene Thorn Society. They left a lasting legacy by establishing the Anne and Glenn A. Crosby Chair of Christian Ethics in 1987 to honor his parents. Crosby is survived by his four sons and their families: current trustee Dr. Glenn A. Crosby ’77 and wife, Liz Carlton Crosby, and grandsons Jack Hutchison ’17 and Walker Mace; Mark Redfearn Crosby ’79; Scott Justin Crosby ’82 and wife, Meg Thomas Crosby, and grandchildren Andrew Scott ’14, Thomas Glenn, and Lucy Elizabeth; Andrew Keller Crosby ’89 and wife, Molly Caldwell Crosby, and granddaughters Morgen Caroline and Keller Elizabeth.

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John K. Lawo......................................johnlawo@bellsouth.net Charles M. Crump........................metcrump@crumpfirm.com Alexander W. Wellford.................. awellford@farris-law.com Scott F. May............................................. sfmay@bellsouth.net Jerry M. Bradfield......................................jbradfi293@aol.com Douglas W. Ferris..............................dferris@ffcfuelcells.com William L. Quinlen.........................................wlq1975@aol.com H. R. Heller........................................... hrheller3@comcast.net Richard A. Miller........................................rmiller634@aol.com Charles F. Smith..................................... duckhead50@aol.com John H. Pettey.................... john.pettey@raymondjames.com William B. Ferguson............................................bill@anfa.com Terry A. Wilson..............................theactor@cypressusa.com Scott P. Wellford...................................spwellford@gmail.com Warren W. Ayres................................wwayres@bellsouth.net Barlow T. Mann....................... barlow.mann@sharpenet.com James P. Wiygul................................philwiygul@earthlink.net E. D. Brandon............ denbybrandon@brandonplanning.com Joel J. Hobson......................... jhobson@hobsonrealtors.com Cecil C. Humphreys..................... chumphreys@glankler.com Wise S. Jones.................................Wise.Jones@regions.com Mark B. Ruleman..................... mark.ruleman@unitedcp.com Joseph W. Sims.................................wsims@walkersims.com Lee R. Marshall.............. lee.marshall@jordanextrusion.com Gilbert B. Wilson...................... gwilson@lehmanroberts.com James B. Moore..............................jmoore1977@comcast.net Joseph M. Morrison.................... joe.m.morrison@gmail.com Arthur F. Fulmer...................................afulmer@fulmerco.com Melvin P. Payne..................................mel_payne@yahoo.com George E. Skouteris............................. skouterislaw@aol.com Robert J. Hussey.......................................rjhthree@gmail.com Kelly H. Truitt............................................kelly.truitt@cbre.com John D. Dunavant.................. john.dunavant@dunavant.com James E. Harwood....................... jharwood@wundernet.com Lucius D. Jordan..................................... tjordan@jordanco.cc Gwin C. Scott........................................ gwin.scott@gmail.com Robert C. McEwan......robert.mcEwan@raymondjames.com Craig H. Witt....................................... craighwitt@hotmail.com Bradley T. Conder..............Brad@unitedcapitalrecovery.com Andrew A. McArtor................................... andy@mcartor.com Edward W. Miller..................................... ted.miller@mac.com Jonathan A. Ballinger...............jonnyballinger@hotmail.com Gardner P. Brooksbank..............boandalanna@bellsouth.net Max W. Painter.......................... max.painter@medtronic.com Frederick C. Schaeffer........... fschaeffer@memphis.nef.com Scott S. Sherman................scott.sherman@ftnfinancial.com Brian C. Eason..................................................... be@qifab.com Philip S. Wunderlich..................... pwunder@wundernet.com Trent E. Allen..........................................Trent@teacosteel.com Darrell T. Cobbins............ darrell@universalcommercial.com Jason B. Grinder......................... bgrinder@grindertaber.com Charles D. Hamlett................. chamlett@bakerdonelson.com Brandon L. Westbrook........brandon.westbrook@gmail.com

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Thomas C. Quinlen................................... tquinlen@gmail.com T. G. Uhlhorn.....................................guhlhorn@bassberry.com Robert B. Clanton............................. bclanton@duncanw.com G. K. May.............................................. kirbymay@hotmail.com David C. Bradford................................dbradford@ssr-inc.com Gideon L. Scoggin......gideon.scoggin@banktennessee.com William V. Thompson....... wthompson@nfcinvestments.com Henry N. Cannon........................nelsoncannon@hotmail.com Robert O. Dow.........................................mail@robertdow.com William M. Weathersby......................... matt@commadv.com William H. Jones.................................. trey.jones@ldcom.com Michael H. Thompson.................... mthompsonjr@gmail.com Broderick D. Clifford............................. eclifford@leadcp.com Donald D. Drinkard............................don.drinkard@cbre.com Justin W. Lohman................................ lohmanjw@yahoo.com Richard T. Burt................................... richardtburt@gmail.com Leslie D. Campbell.............................ccampbell@owpllc.com Norfleet B. Thompson....................................fltbuck@aol.com Michael C. Liverance.............liverance.michael@gmail.com Phillip R. Miller................................ ryan@gullanecapital.com Paul T. Gillespie............................pgillespie@wundernet.com Daniel C. McDonell.............................. dmcdonell@gmail.com William B. Williford........................ battlewilliford@gmail.com Eugene F. Bledsoe................ gene.bledsoe@ftnfinancial.com Francis B. Langston............................... flangston@gmail.com William C. Saxton.....................................wsaxton@gmail.com James J. Drinan...............................james.drinan@gmail.com Edward F. Nenon....................................... enenon@gmail.com John S. Collier............................................jcollier@collier.com Jonathan E. Embry..............................elliotembry@gmail.com Kane R. Alber........................................kane.alber@gmail.com Samuel H. Sawyer..................samhuttonsawyer@gmail.com Samuel P. Coates.....................coatescompanies@gmail.com Charles E. Hazlehurst.............................chazlehu@gmail.com Mark W. Askew................................. west.askew@gmail.com Jordan B. Cowan...................................jblakec89@gmail.com Michael S. Cross................. michael.s.cross@vanderbilt.edu William Coleman C. Hall.........................wcchall1@gmail.com Rhobb S. Hunter............................................ rhunter5@slu.edu James B. Moore......................................... jimmoore@uga.edu Stephond L. Allmond................ allmonds@goldmail.etsu.edu Harry Hill................................................... hillh14@mail.wlu.edu Jacob C. Rudolph.............................rudolphj14@mail.wlu.edu Blake A. Hennessy......................................bhenness@utk.edu Alexander C. Schoelkopf.......................cschoelk@gmail.com Richard S. Taylor...................................... ritaylor6@gmail.com John E. Francis................................................jfranci9@utk.edu Anthony M. Hodges...............................ewokking@gmail.com Lee R. Marshall.............................leemarshall41@yahoo.com John D. Baber.........................................jbaber1@comcast.net William M. Bolton.......................... matt.bolton@musowls.org Jarrett M. Jackson...................................Jmj7851@gmail.com James T. Rantzow..................................rantzow643@aim.com

Editor’s Note: This issue contains Class News items received by November 15, 2012.

’60 Two faded but perhaps reviving games – croquet and bridge – entertained classmates during the year. In high school John Bondurant and Alex Wellford played as partners in various local bridge tournaments. Last spring they partnered again in the American Contract Bridge Association’s national championships held in Memphis. After a second-place finish in a more novice division, they were humbled by a last-place finish among the professionals and their partners. (Omar Sharif and Warren Buffett did not compete last year.) Golf croquet, replacing the old yard croquet, was a focus in Linville, NC, where Sally and C.D. Smith hosted Vance and Willis Willey, Karen and Alex Wellford, Tonya and Sam Rembert, Mary and Allen Malone ’59, Kathy and Scott Ledbetter, and Melanie Taylor (widow of R. Lee Taylor ’59) over the Labor Day weekend.

in everything. I made some great friends at MUS, and it was nice to reconnect. Fifty years sounds like a long time ago, but many memories seemed like yesterday.” The first regret was from FedEx CEO Fred Smith – ranked No. 3 in Fortune magazine’s list of “The 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time” last year. Fred could not make the reunion because he attended his son Cannon’s football game in North Carolina – University of Memphis vs. Duke. However, we were still able to arrange a three-hour “VIP tour” of the

’62 Our 50th reunion in September was even better than expected. Some may have dreaded seeing friends getting older, and some may have preferred not being reminded it’s been 50 years since we all were together, but as Gary Ford aptly put it: “We have only one 50th high school reunion, so I wanted to participate

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Another highlight Friday was the chance to sit in on a class at MUS. They call it “Eighth Period,” and it only occurs on reunion Fridays. Dan Copp, Nat Ellis, and I attended an interesting AP Physics class. The instructor, Mr. Wayne Mullins, was impressive, and the students sat in rapt attention. Each student is there by choice and intends to pursue a science track in college. As they discussed various trigonometry concepts, it brought back distant memories of senior math. Did you know that MUS now has a separate building just for the sciences? Nat and I stayed for the pep rally, and we weren’t disappointed. Hyde Chapel was filled to capacity, but we were able to find two seats in the very back. It was quite a spectacle and very entertaining. The cheerleaders did the “Roll Call” and obviously said some funny things about each player, most of which went over our heads. But it was not lost on the student body, and they roared with enthusiasm at each remark. Headmaster Ellis Haguewood led the crowd with “15 Snappy Rahs,” and then we watched a very humorous video. It got everyone in the Homecoming mood.

After presiding over much of the fundraising, Willis Willey completed his term as chairman of the board of the new and spectacular Bascom Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands, NC. In April 2012 we learned that Archie McLaren was one of 30 wine-industry leaders from around the world nominated by Wine Intelligence for its 10 for 10 Business Awards, recognizing leaders who have had a lasting impact on the wine industry.

packages daily in Memphis alone. What a fantastic model of efficiency Fred and his team have created. They showered us with several mementos of our experience at the end of the tour. Thanks, Fred – from all of us.

From top: Nat Ellis and Jerry Bradfield in the FedEx control tower; Richard Ford (left), Tom Shipmon, and Cole Wilder on the FedEx tour

FedEx Hub on Friday morning, September 21. Camille Diggs and Douglas Stonebraker kept us moving on a FedEx-provided bus throughout the entire 800-plus acres of nonstop technological wonders. At the command-and-control center we went to the top of the flight-control tower, talked to the controllers, watched planes coming and going and listened to the radio dialogue. The primary sorting facility, called the Matrix, is truly amazing, handling more than 1.5 million

At 5 p.m. Bob Manker, Cole Wilder and his date, Jennifer Atkins, Pat and Nat Ellis, Sallie and Gary Ford, Sam Gary, and I met for the barbecue dinner. Jim Garner would have been there, but his plane was delayed in Dallas due to bad weather. Gene Dattel and his wife, Licia, were also planning to attend, but a last-minute change in his Mom’s 99th birthday celebration prevented it. Around 6:30 p.m. we headed to the football field. We were excited about sitting in the skybox, but we were not prepared for the sight that awaited us. Besides the great view

We’ve all had them – mistakes that seemed disastrous in their time, which actually paved the way to a new opportunity or idea and, ultimately, success. We would like to hear from alumni willing to share their valuable errors for a future MUS Today feature. Please send a brief synopsis of your rising-from-the-ashes story to MUS Managing Editor Liz Copeland, liz.copeland@musowls.org. MUS TODAY

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Members of the Class of ’62 gather for a group photo after their luncheon. Pictured (front row, from left) are Dan Work, Bob Manker, Barney Witherington, and Russell Patterson; (back row) Jerry Bradfield, Jim Garner, Richard (Gary) Ford, and Nat Ellis.

we found trays of goodies and a well-stocked beverage cabinet with ice dispenser. It was our own private room where we could chat as we watched the game. Claire Farmer and Perry Dement of the Development Office came to check on us from time to time. Manker gave detailed plays and player descriptions, which added to the experience. We had a long but very satisfying day of nonstop experiences, which made us feel like we were part of a great school tradition. One can’t help but be impressed by all the transformations at MUS. On Saturday we enjoyed the luncheon in Morgan Foyer of Humphreys Hall. Tables were

Nat Ellis (center), Jim Garner and his date, Tammy Foust look at vintage Owl’s Hoot newspapers.

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attractively decorated in red, white, and blue, and the catered food was delicious. Barney Witherington and his wife, Ann, drove from Jackson, TN. Sandy and Russell Patterson, Sallie and Gary Ford, Pat and Nat Ellis, Jim Garner and his date, Tammy Foust, and Dan Work attended as well as Shirley and Bob Manker, who came from Olive Branch, MS. Jonny Ballinger ’87, Alumni Executive Board president, made a few remarks and then gave the floor to Mr. Haguewood, who walked us down Memory Lane as if he’d been there with us. He also shared improvements at MUS since we graduated. We felt very proud to have been among the first graduating classes [of the new school] in what has become a premier learning institution in the region. Jim Garner, our former class president, and I [class rep Jerry Bradfield] made a few remarks before heading out for a tour of the school, led by Claire Farmer. The school’s athletic facilities are unparalleled. There was even a fencing class going on in the gym. Claire said every waking moment there is some activity going on somewhere on campus. We passed the state-of-the-art recording studio that John Fry helped set up as well as the Thomas Amphitheater, named after the late Jimmy Thomas ’58 (Canon Hall’s brother). One very popular place is the Schaeffer Bookstore, where you can find all sorts of MUS memorabilia.

The party at the home of Canon and Jamie Hall was a highlight of the weekend because we finally got to sit down and catch up with one another. Most of us had been there five years ago, but we were thrilled to welcome Shirley and Bob Manker and Dan Copp and disappointed the Witheringtons couldn’t stay over. However, Barbara and Newt Metcalf, Sandy and Russell Patterson, Sallie and Gary Ford, Pat and Nat Ellis, Billie and Dan Work, Brokke and Tom Shipmon and, of course, Canon and Jamie made for a very nice group. Aside from the wonderful Creole-style dinner and getting to socialize in the Halls’ lovely home, the absolute best part of the night was hearing the answers to the classmate questionnaire that Nat Ellis compiled with help from MUS archivist and historian John Harkins. Lee McCormick sent in some additional questions pertaining to PDS and a riotous picture of some of us in Peter Pan costumes. Nat kept us in rapt attention and reeled off the responses as if we were all back in the Commons Room in 1962. He remembered things we’ve all since forgotten. However, others joined in to share some surprising revelations. It was truly a special night we will all remember and cherish. Special thanks to Canon and Jamie for opening their home once again and treating us to their wonderful hospitality and also to Nat for his work on the questionnaire and keeping reunion planning on track.

The responses we received represent only one-third of our classmates. If you would like to be included on the updates, please return your questionnaire to Nat at nbe260e@gmail. com or 260 Harper’s Ferry E., Collierville, TN 38017-1208. We are planning to post the questionnaire on the “MUS Class of 1962” Facebook page. Remember to check the Facebook page – and leave a comment or two – frequently. We hope the page will keep us up-to-date on one another. Thanks to Rebecca Greer, the public relations and social media manager at the school, for her help in getting the page up and running. Meanwhile, send in your Annual Fund pledges and be included in the class total every year. A school is only as good as its support. Please be a continuing part of this wonderful institution. Thanks to 15 (out of 28) classmates who participated in the Annual Fund drive last year, the Class of 1962 outperformed all other classes in total given ($54,795). A special thanks also goes to Dan Copp, whose last-minute calling boosted our total. We should be very proud of these accomplishments. We would like to consider a class project. If any of you have suggestions, please contact me at jbradfi293@aol.com.

’66 Eric Greenwood is now in his 40th year as an ordained Episcopal priest. Living in Nashville, he is rector at St. David’s Episcopal Church and is celebrating the church’s 50th anniversary this year. He and his wife, Sharon, enjoy being grandparents to 4-year-old twins and a 15 month old. Scott King is the senior partner at Memphis Surgical Associates, along with other alumni Ned Laughlin ’60, Hugh Francis ’76, and Mel Payne ’80. He is a volunteer instructor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, specializing in endocrine surgery. In his spare time he and Gail enjoy fly fishing and birding at their cabin in the Ozarks.

After Hal Rhea retired about a year ago, he and his wife, Sally, bought a pop-up camper. They often camp with Gail and Scott King. His three grown children are all living in Memphis. Jack “Cactus” Roberts has recently joined the ranks of retired citizens with the sale of the firm he founded, Environmental Landscape Services, to a Birmingham-based concern. His son, John ’90, remains on board to manage the day-to-day operations. Jack explains, “You know, I thought I’d hate it and be bored to death, but I’m sorta settling into this lifestyle nicely. Much more time for golf and other hobbies I’ve not yet discovered.” Please contact Jack directly if you are considering a similar path. Baker Thompson lives in Fulton, KY, and is enjoying his retirement from Goodyear. His 4 handicap earned his club’s Most Improved Golfer Award, and he hopes to play in Ireland and Scotland this year. His daughter, son-inlaw, and two grandchildren live in Jackson, MS. Kent Wunderlich has been elected to the board of directors of the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy.

’67 Hugh Bosworth is up to 12 grandchildren now and down 70 pounds after losing weight over the last two years to fight type 2 diabetes. Gordon Greeson and his wife, Robin, celebrated their 41st anniversary in August 2012. Their oldest daughter, Cory, and her family, along with their two grandchildren (Sam, 8, and Anna, 6) live in the greater Tampa, FL, area. Their other two daughters (Laura and Kate) live within five minutes of each other in Brooklyn, NY. All are married and, thankfully, gainfully employed. As of August 2012 he cut back to working six days a month as an outpatient child psychiatrist, so this gives the couple more time to visit kids and grandkids. They’ve been in Knoxville 32 years. If any classmates make it up for UT sporting events, they would love to hear from them.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals recognized Mark Halperin as the Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser at the 2012 Crystal Awards on National Philanthropy Day in November. Halperin is executive vice president and CEO of Boyle Investment Company. Bill Jordan still works at the Environmental Protection Agency focusing on nanotechnology in pesticide products and genetically modified corn. No wonder he was our valedictorian. Hardy Todd and his wife, Ainslie, have been traveling to Europe often and just purchased a new condominium. Walton Tomford is still a leading physician specializing in infectious disease at Cleveland Clinic.

’68 David Cunningham shares that classmates Bruce Hopkins and Ames Yeates made a trip to Washington, DC, for his daughter, Maisie’s, wedding. Sam Pepper, who has been living in Anchorage, AK, for 18 years, returned to Memphis for a visit in November 2012. He sat with some of his ’67 football Owl teammates and watched MUS beat Baylor in the quarterfinal game of the playoffs.

’69 John Cady was named interim executive director of the Mid-South Fair in September 2012. Laurence Dobbins and his family recently welcomed a new grandson, Jaiden Alexander Faulkner.

’70 Lou Adams was among 20 men and women recognized by Memphis/Mid-South Susan G. Komen for the Cure for making a difference in the fight against breast cancer. The organization celebrated 20 years of Race for the Cure in 2012.

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Rumors of Green Machine’s Demise Prove to be Wishful Thinking Although the venerable Green Machine announced in June that the 2012 Alumni Basketball League season would be its last,

recent developments have lent hope to the masses – the Machine will play on in another manifestation. Co-owner and general manager Hopie Brooks ’80 recently issued a somber denial of his June assertion. “Just kidding,” he said. Some background for the uninitiated: In the entire 33-year history of the MUS ABL, only two things have remained constant – the commissioner and the Green Machine. The Commish has always ruled with an iron fist but remained faceless, preferring to send messages through minions such as Deputy Commissioner Judd Peters ’81. The Green Machine, however, has been both visible and accessible, like the Harlem Globetrotters, only not as good at basketball. Known worldwide for its camouflage uniforms and never-say-die attitude, the Machine has played every season, winning numerous championships and at one time actually retiring the Nell Lenti Trophy. [Editor’s note:

Green Machinists Famous names who have played at one time or another for the Green Machine include Jimmy Ogle ’70, Willis Ayres ’72, Lane Carrick ’76, John Stewart ’78, Keith May ’79, Jeff Peters ’79, Hopie Brooks ’80, Kim Jenkins ’80, Eric Johnson ’80, Bryan Jones ’80, John Ogle ’80, Greg Parker ’80, Brooke Rodriguez ’80, David Simpson ’80, George Skouteris ’80, John Edmonson ’81, Rick Thornton ’81, Bud Thrasher ’81, Barton Thrasher ’82, Kevin Parker ’84, Scott Anderson ’92 (who played much older than his chronological age), Matt Bakke, Mike Donoghue, Rick Hechinger, and Steve Johnson.

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Green Machine veterans gather with their championship trophies, which look suspiciously similar to awards from the shelves at Bobcat Bar & Grill. Pictured, from left, are John Ogle, Barton Thrasher, Rick Thornton, Rick Hechinger, and George Skouteris. In front, Hopie Brooks, left, and John Edmonson.

Although this trophy is mythological, Nell Lenti ran the Dining Hall from 1969-86.] Known primarily for its old players and rugged play, Green Machine has been the most seasoned team in the ABL for at least a decade. Still it has managed – through experience, guile, and a friendly rapport with the refs – to systematically frustrate and eliminate younger teams. Many younger players have been known to complain vociferously to the officials about the Machine’s style of play before realizing the futility of such tactics. These same players likely will be chagrined to hear that the Machine will play again, thanks to the ingenuity of player-coach John Ogle ’80. Although last year’s squad only made it to the semifinals, the players went out in a blaze of glory. They were so encouraged by their ability to compete with younger players that they have agreed to enter the league this summer. However, they will sell the majority share of ownership to several MUS students, who will continue to play under the Green Machine banner. Colin Donoghue ’13, Grant Hechinger ’13, Berry Brooks ’14, and Stephen Ogle ’16 will compose the core roster in the decades to

come. Legendary Machiners Rick Thornton ’81, Mike Donoghue, and Rick Hechinger have agreed to play at least on a part-time basis in 2013 to bridge the gap between old and new. “This is great news for the MUS community,” Ellis Haguewood said in a statement to MUS Today. “These guys represent everything good about MUS and the ABL. I know them, and despite their fierce reputation, they are actually very nice in person.” The commissioner chimed in, as well: “I don’t know if we would even have an ABL if we didn’t have the Green Machine – all the other teams are young and boring, and not nearly as handsome. I thought all the Machine players would drop out when we took the ashtrays off the benches, but only one of them – Bryan Jones ’80 – actually quit over it.” [Editor’s note: For his part Jones said his departure was not about the ashtrays: “Hopie told me the team had gotten too large. Instead of playing, he wanted me to wear an old girlfriend’s MUS cheerleader outfit and cheer for the team. He said I would still be on the official team roster, but I felt I’d never be able to look Mr. Haguewood in the eye if I did.”]

The Downtown Memphis Commission honored Jimmy Ogle in its 2012 Downtown Vision Awards with a special merit award for his outstanding contributions to the area.

’71 Thomas Jones reports that his daughter, Annie, has followed in her parents’ footsteps and is practicing dentistry. His older son, Will, is halfway finished with dental school, and his younger son, Wes, is a chef. Bobby Levy says he is plugging along with four kids and grandkids when he is not working or scuba diving. Layton Sanders went on a river cruise through Russia’s Volga-Baltic Waterway over the summer. This trip allowed him to spend several days in Saint Petersburg and Moscow and points in between. In Saint Petersburg he saw a performance of the ballet Giselle, and he visited the Hermitage, and several palaces of the tsars, including Peterhof, the palace of Peter the Great, and Tsarskoe Selo, the summer palace of Nicholas II. Jess Wesberry is a comprehensive ophthalmologist at Hamilton Eye Institute. His wife, Mary Lee, teaches biology at Hutchison, and his daughter Elizabeth was married in October 2012.

’73 Keith M. Ingram (D) of West Memphis, AR, was elected minority leader for the Arkansas State Senate 89th General Assembly. Buck Lewis has been appointed chairman of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission. Lewis is a partner at the Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz law firm. The Bon Ton Café, a Downtown Memphis landmark for decades, has reopened under the new ownership of Tommy Peters after being closed for four years. You may recognize some other Downtown ventures that Peters is a partner in: B.B. King’s Restaurant & Blues Club,

A. Schwab, and The Historic Cadre Building.

’74 Law360, an online legal industry news portal, has named Ben Adams to its list of “Most Innovative Managing Partners” for 2012. Adams has been chairman and CEO of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz since 2003. Will Chase will have extra cause to celebrate this year. He reports his daughter, Mary Catherine, has graduated from Boston University with a sociology degree, and she is employed at Daybreak Treatment Center in Germantown, an outpatient facility for teens and preteens. In other news, Chase has been selected to serve on the Community Bankers Council, a division of the American Bankers Association in Washington, DC. Chuck Day is still singing in the chancel choir at Decatur First United Methodist Church in Decatur, GA, working in Athens, GA, and living in Dacula, GA. David McDonald is working at Raymond James and was headed to Hawaii with his wife, Marion, who is a travel agent.

’03, Andrew Dillon ’04, Morgan Rose ’04, Joey Friend ’05, and Hudson Atkins ’08. Neely Mallory has been named chairman of the Regional Logistics Council of the Greater Memphis Chamber. Mallory is president of Mallory Alexander International Logistics, a leading full-service logistics provider on the international stage.

’77 Russell Deaton is department chair and Ring Professor of Engineering at the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis. His research involves the modeling and design of DNA-guided self-assembly of nanostructures. Bob Fockler, who is president of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, visited Hyde Chapel September 14, 2012, to speak about the importance of civic service. His talk capped fall Charity Week at MUS. Fockler has been named to the River City Capital Investment Corp. board of directors. River City Capital is an affiliate program of Community LIFT (Leveraging Investments for Transformation).

As for the latest addition to Buck Wellford’s family, his son, Stephan Blair, is named for classmate Sam Blair. “I guess I will get some ribbing about having a baby at my age, but maybe naming him after Sam will deflect some of it!” Wellford said.

’75 Dave Malone is now living in Memphis and is a certified personal trainer specializing in general fitness, group/senior/youth fitness, and endurance training.

’76 Lane Carrick is now a senior vice president in the Private Client Group of Duncan-Williams Inc., where he is responsible for training all new wealth advisors. His current class of 25 includes several MUS alumni: Clay Chapman

Bob Fockler, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, and Ryan Mayzell ’13, chairman of the CSO

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council honors top performers in commercial real estate with its Pinnacle Awards. Jim Rainer was named Broker of the Year in the land sales category for 2012. Rainer is executive vice president at Grubb & Ellis, Memphis. MUS TODAY

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’78 Daniel Brown is COO of Green Ballast Inc., an energy-efficient fluorescent lighting company that was recently featured in the Memphis Business Journal. Eric Hunter provided the following “News on the Five” (his kids): Wilson is now working in the office of Alabama State Attorney General Luther Strange. He is a federal prosecutor specializing in gun crimes. He also recently married Rebecca Leadingham, and they live in Birmingham, AL. Sam is working for the Aerial Corp., which specializes in equipment for the natural gas industry. It has the only compressor in use for shale/oil sands production. He lives in New Albany, OH. Josh lives in Nashville, where he works for two music production companies, dealing with business issues for artists such as Taylor Swift, Darius Rucker,

and Ted Nugent. Currently, he is touring with Rodney Atkins and Mumford & Sons. Rebecca spent the summer working at the retail REIT investment firm O’Conner Group in New York City. She loved NYC but is glad to be back in New Orleans at Tulane. Liza is 16, working at Wynlakes Golf & Country Club in Montgomery and becoming quite the wake surfer. Eric and Liz are well, enjoying riding horses and motorcycles as well as watching and learning what their young adults are stirring up. Rollin Riggs continues to travel the country, making appearances at NBA venues with the Beale Street Flippers – although not actually doing the flipping.

’79 Fleet Abston is president of Fleet Building Company in Oxford, MS.

Jonathan Scharff has joined Buckman Laboratories International as vice president, legal and general counsel. He will also assume duties as corporate secretary for Bulab Holdings Inc., the parent company of Buckman. Scharff is also serving on the board of directors for Planned Parenthood – Greater Memphis Region.

Births

Nelson Adrian ’00 to Tricia Everitt on May 26, 2012

Jennifer and Buck Wellford ’74, a son, Stephan Blair, born August 31, 2012 (See Class News, p. 59.)

Madeleine and Patrick Akins ’98, twins, a daughter, Cardwell Fraser, and a son, William Wall, born October 4, 2012

Shannan and Lee McWaters ’84, a son, William Lee (Billy) born April 14, 2012

Anne and Robert Faber ’98, a son, Richard Allen, born May 31, 2012.

Margo and Mark Fogelman ’88, a son, Joshua Riley, born September 17, 2012

Kathy and Justin Lohman ’98, a daughter, Emily Katherine, born November 30, 2012

Ed Cabigao ’01 to Brittany Whisenant March 3, 2012 Michael McLaren ’01 to Courtney Clothier on September 17, 2011 John Adrian ’02 to Elizabeth Newman on June 23, 2012 Adam Lazarov ’02 to Jami Karren on December 31, 2011 Joel Iglehart ’03 to Casey Stone on June 2, 2012 Alex Guyton ’05 to Helen Morrison, November 17, 2012 Jimbo Rainer ’05 to Faye Kenner on September 15, 2012 Phillip DeBardeleben ’06 to Kassitee Poole on November 17, 2012 Donald McClure ’06 to Michelle Bernard on July 7, 2012

Alice and John Roberts ’90, a son, John Adams (Jack) III, born February 18, 2012 Katarina and Bo Hyde ’92, a daughter, Annabel, born June 21, 2012 Emily and Sam Rembert ’93, a son, Andrew Scott, born April 12, 2012 Lane and Ben Clanton ’94, a daughter, Merideth Smith, on August 31, 2012 Ann and Ned Laughlin ’94, a daughter, Alice O’Neal (Nealy), born September 13, 2012 Alysson and Spencer Reese ’94, a son, Finnley Malcolm Darcy, born September 20, 2012 Lizzie and Jason Saenger ’94, a daughter Edith Claire, born July 4, 2012 Alexis and Michael Faber ’96, a son, Charles Bach, born October 20, 2012

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Kim Jenkins is president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors at MRI Interventions, which is focused on creating innovative devices for minimally invasive surgical procedures in the brain and heart. The company’s ClearPoint software and hardware system works with MRI machines to allow neurosurgeons to see a patient’s brain in real time during procedures.

Marriages Reid Thompson ’00 to Jacki Fritz on September 2, 2012

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Elizabeth and Wes Scott ’99, a son, William Edward (Witt) IV, born September 24, 2012 Whitney and Ben Trusty ’00, a son, Miller Price, born October 12, 2011 Rachel and Andrew Black ’01, a son Pearson Hayne, born June 16, 2012

Deaths David S. Gingold ’68 Robert G. Allen, Jr. ’69 Roy B. Scott ’75 Donald J. Bellott ’76 W. Chapman Dewey ’83 Jason L. Crabb ’91

John Sebes’ son, James, graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School and is attending Tulane University to study cell biology.

’81 Billy Orgel was re-elected chairman of the unified Shelby County Board of Education. Elkan Scheidt was elected to the board of directors of Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust. Kelly Truitt has been named to the River City Capital Investment Corp. board of directors. River City Capital is an affiliate program of Community LIFT (Leveraging Investments for Transformation).

’83 Cole Inman enjoyed a trip to Europe with his wife, Andrea, to attend the wedding of a friend in Slovakia. They also hosted his parents for the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, OR, in July. Danny Mansberg is a vice president at Wells Fargo in Memphis. His wife, Leigh, is the assistant head of school at St. Mary’s Episcopal School, and his daughter Emma is an eighthgrade lacrosse player and half-marathoner at the school. His daughter Ramie is a freshman at the University of Texas. Marshall Odeen is now working with Clifford Paper Inc. His 11-year-old daughter, Sarah, is part of a national champion cheerleading squad, and his 13-year-old son, John, is an active and avid sailing competitor. Jim Springfield is still working at Microsoft, where he has been for more than 20 years.

’84 Bruckner Chase reports that he and his wife, Michelle, continue working in America Samoa to create new opportunities for youth and decrease an alarmingly high drowning rate.

American Samoa has produced a significant number of college and NFL football players, he said. “We feel that even a handful of successes like that indicate an incredible potential in the territory’s youth, and we are working to do what we can to connect them to similar possibilities related to ocean and marine careers. In January we helped launch a full credit class at Samoana High School that teaches ocean swimming and ocean science.” They have started the nonprofit Bruckner Chase Ocean Positive Inc. to fund their efforts. Gregg Landau was elected as vice president/ treasurer of the board of directors of Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab.

’85 John Dobbs has joined the board of directors for Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust. The Commercial Appeal recognized Owen Tabor as one of 10 recipients of the Jefferson Awards last year. The awards recognize those improving society through voluntarism. (See story on page 22). Also, Tabor was recently quoted in a Commercial Appeal article about the installation of a 50KW photovoltaic solar system on the roof of Tabor Orthopedics in Memphis. “Our building has a flat roof and no shade, so it was the perfect place for solar. The new TVA Green Power Providers Program made installing solar on our building a wise investment for both the long and short term.”

’86 Stewart Austin of Glankler Brown PLLC in Memphis was recently elected president of the board of Wolf River Conservancy. “We not only want to protect the river and the land, but we want to promote conservation, education and recreation,” Austin said in a Daily News article. “Those are our three main missions.” Elmore Holmes placed sixth in the 31st annual Outdoors Inc. Canoe & Kayak Race on the Mississippi River in June 2012. Ted Miller has joined First State Bank as city president for Memphis.

’88 Howard Cleveland is a principal at PeopleCap Advisors LLC, a human resources consulting firm he co-founded in January 2012 with fellow Rhodes College alumni Meg Thomas Crosby, Andy Nix, and Coleman Barton Johnson. Marc Gurley is the owner of School of Rock, located in the Shops of Laurelwood. Gurley aquired the franchise after selling his previous business, Double Eagle Golf. Meyer Horn and his wife, Keren, are both dermatologists with a Chicago practice. They have an 8-year-old daughter and 5-year-old twin daughters. Kevin Ogilby is executive vice president and head of investment banking at DuncanWilliams Inc. headquarters in Memphis.

’90 Dr. Jeffrey Kerlan of Stern Cardiovascular Foundation has been elected to the board of directors of the Memphis Medical Society.

’91 Josh Poag has been named to the River City Capital Investment Corp. board of directors. River City Capital is an affiliate program of Community LIFT (Leveraging Investments for Transformation).

’92 William Tayloe has been elected to the board of directors of Financial Federal Savings Bank. In 2008, at age 34, Tayloe became the youngest president in the 27-year history of the institution. Oliver Doughtie is vice president of finance and planning at Mimeo.com. Carr Kelsey ran a successful campaign for election to the Collierville School Board, garnering more than 60 percent of the vote. MUS TODAY

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Alumni Pitch in with Kroc Center The $31 million Memphis Salvation Army Kroc Center opened in February on the northwest corner of the Mid-South Fairgrounds. Several alumni have figured prominently in the funding, construction, and operation of the 104,000-square-foot community center. H. Montgomery Martin ’73 is CEO of Montgomery Martin Contractors, which constructed the facility. Stephen Carpenter ’83 is director of operations for the center. Scott Crosby ’82, an attorney with Burch, Porter & Johnson, and his wife, Meg, chaired the committee that raised $25 million to secure the Kroc Foundation’s $60 million grant. (Crosby also serves on the Salvation Army

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Advisory Board.) Doug Carpenter ’82, of Doug Carpenter & Associates played a critical marketing role in the endowment campaign.

Assisi Foundation Aquatics Center – indoor center with lap lanes, lazy river, and two-story waterslide

State-of-the-art facilities reflect some of the supporters, companies, and foundations contributing to the center:

John M. Tully Sr. Splash Park – outdoor spray space with interactive water features

AutoZone Challenge Center Area – a three-story interactive team-building and problem-solving experience (AutoZone founder Pitt Hyde ’61) FedEx Gymnasium – two full-size basketball courts, an indoor turf field, and an adaptable stage area (FedEx founder Fred Smith ’62)

Nancy R. Crosby Worship and Performing Arts Center – a 300-seat auditorium Baptist Memorial Health Care Fitness Center – offering fitness equipment, personalized assistance, classes, and wellness training For more on the Memphis Kroc Center, visit www.krocmemphis.org.

Meg and Scott Crosby ‘82

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Alumni Help Guide New Memphis Institute Darrell Cobbins ’91, left, president of Universal Commercial Real Estate, has been elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the New Memphis Institute (formerly Leadership Academy), which recruits and trains community leaders. The executive committee also includes Bill Dunavant ’78, right, president & CEO of Dunavant Enterprises and immediate past chair; and Kelly Truitt ’81, president of CBRE Memphis. Alumni on the board of governors are Trow Gillespie ’65 of NewSouth Capital Management and Henry Turley ’59 of the Henry Turley Company. Other alumni on the board of trustees are Mark Fogelman ’88 of Fogelman Management Group, Bruce Hopkins ’68 of First Horizon, Brian Sullivan ’83 of Sullivan Branding, and David Waddell ’91 of Waddell & Associates.

Marc MacMillan is assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Memphis Crossroads, a publication of the Greater Memphis Chamber, featured Todd Watson as one of 10 top young professionals making a difference in the Memphis community. Watson is executive vice president of Armstrong Relocation. Perry Wilson was elected to a five-year term as chairman of the board of trustees for Lyon College in Batesville, AR. Wilson lives in Little Rock and is a partner in the Barber Law Firm.

’93 Kevin Cubbins is associate producer and engineer for the globally syndicated radio show, Beale Street Caravan, which recently marked its 16th anniversary on the air. The show averages about 2.4 million listeners per week worldwide. Lake Newton joined the faculty at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore during the Fall 2011 semester. He is working in the Department of Fine Arts as a member of the photography program. Newton received a master of fine arts degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2009, following his graduation from Rhodes College. He has lived and worked in Hungary, South Korea, and Berlin. A selection of his personal work can be viewed at www.lakenewton.com. Keith Warner has relocated his gunsmith shop, Keith Warner Gunsmith Inc., to Carrefour At Kirby Woods after several years in the Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods store. 64

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In addition to gunsmithing, he sells new and used firearms.

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’94 Clay McCullar, a cattle rancher near Abilene, TX, was inducted into the Non-Professional Hall of Fame at the National Cutting Horse Association World Championship Futurity in November 2012 in Fort Worth, TX. McCullar’s lifetime earnings to date are $638,000, and he has won championships at eight events, including The MillionHeir Classic, Brazos Bash, and West Texas Futurity. He has finished reserve (second) six times and claimed top-10 finishes 44 times, while making the finals 63 times. Speaking to the Abilene Reporter-News, McCullar described himself as “horse people.” “There are people who show horses because of the buckle,” he said. “I cut because I love horses and the lifestyle.” Check out McCullar in action on the back inside cover of MUS Today. Spencer Reese, MUS instructor in English, recently graduated in absentia with a Master’s of Letters in Divinity from Scotland’s University of St. Andrews. During a two-year, distancelearning program entitled “Bible and the Contemporary World,” Reese studied the connection of biblical and theological studies with other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The subject of his thesis will come as no surprise to anyone who knows him or has seen the décor in his office – “Bringing Down the Goddess: from hag to holy fool, a defense of Harry Potter through imaginative re-identification.”

David Bradford, right, vice president at Smith Seckman Reid Inc., Memphis, is the chair for Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell’s Young Professionals Council for 2013-2014 (www.mypcshelby.org). The council’s goal is to help the county recruit, retain, and develop young professionals. Bradford helped organize Luttrell’s visit to the campus last August. The mayor gave a presentation in Hyde Chapel about his efforts to keep young talent in the area. Justin Taylor and Cameron Mann ’96 and their Swinos team took third place in the 2012 Ms. Piggy Idol talent competition at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

’99 Wilson Baird has joined Grinder Haizlip Construction Company as project manager.

Frazier Baker has a new job as vice president of office services at Colliers International, where he specializes in commercial tenant representation.

Memphis and was captain of the 2004 team. (MUS graduates will now be head football coaches at two of the Owls’ rival schools. Major Wright ’92 is at Briarcrest.)

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Nelson Adrian is associate general counsel at Regions Insurance Group.

About 40 classmates and their significant others met at Twelve Bar on Beale Street December 22, 2012, to celebrate our 10-year reunion. The night was highlighted by Charles Thompson performing his own rendition of the Marc Cohn classic, “Walking in Memphis,” accompanied by Herbo Humphreys on the piano. A special thanks to Alston Meeks ’99, a managing partner at Twelve Bar, for allowing us to use the new digs to host the event.

Evan Linder is a playwright and actor in Chicago, where he is associate artistic director and co-founder with Mary Hollis Inboden of The New Colony, a theater company. He recently performed a reading of his play The Warriors at Circuit Playhouse in Memphis about the 1998 Jonesboro, AR, school massacre. Inboden is a survivor of that shooting, and the two co-wrote the play (See story page 29).

’01 Brent Blankenship has been promoted to vice president in the Global Business Development group at DBRS in New York City, where he covers structured finance issuers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Jon Hampton is in his second year at Yale School of Management. He reports that he is engaged to Lucy Whidden, whom he met in undergraduate school at Dartmouth College. Clay Harris is in his final year of law school at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. He spent the summer at the Albuquerque Public Defender’s office in New Mexico as an intern in the second judicial district. Bond Hopkins has moved from Denver to Houston, where he is a financial analyst with DCP Midstream LLC. According to the website, DCP is the second-largest natural gas gatherer and processor, the largest natural gas liquids producer, and one of the largest marketers of natural gas and natural gas byproducts in the United States. Scott Vogel has been named varsity football coach at Christian Brothers High School, Memphis. Vogel, who is in his third year at CBHS, served the last two seasons as defensive coordinator. He played football at the University of

December was a busy month for our classmates getting engaged: Estes Folk, Joe Pegram, and George Erb all proposed to their long-time girlfriends and received the go-ahead to get married. Brice Bailey works at Vining Sparks, Memphis, in institutional fixed income. Sgt. Bryan Clark recently returned from his fourth deployment to Afghanistan. He is currently assigned to the third battalion of the 75th Ranger regiment in Columbus, GA. Tyler Clemmensen is in his third year of medical school at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Adam Lazarov graduated from Harvard Law School in May 2011. In November he was sworn into the Massachusetts Bar and is working for the Goodwin Procter firm in their Boston office, where he will focus on private equity and real estate. As director of the MUS Cinema Production Club, filmmaker Robert Rowan helped students produce their first short, The Cellular Abyss, which premiered to wild acclaim from the assembled student body in chapel January 14. Watch The Cellular Abyss at tinyurl.com/ ago7u8c and Rowan’s recent film Meditation on Two Wheels at tinyurl.com/bznjcrt. The team of Brett Meeks and Jayce McConnell from Snackbar in Oxford, MS, recently

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Davidson Sings ‘Blessed’ for Romney Campaign Recording artist and songwriter Beau Davidson ’99 served as a surrogate for the presidential campaign of Gov. Mitt Romney, singing on his behalf across the country, culminating in a nationally televised performance of his original patriotic song “Blessed” at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL. (Check out the video via www.beaudavidson.com.) “Singing ‘Blessed’ all across the nation was an exhilarating experience, and seeing the way the song resonated with Americans might have been the greatest feeling of the entire campaign,” Davidson said. The documentary-style music video for the song, which includes stirring comments from military veterans, premiered nationwide on Country Music Television July 4, 2012, and it earned Davidson his first regional Emmy nomination. He continues to sing on CMT’s The Singing Bee and serves as Master of Ceremonies for Miss Universe Pageants in Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Davidson was recently named one of the United States Junior Chamber (Jaycees) Ten Outstanding Young Americans of 2013 for his accomplishments in the entertainment and political arenas. The honor is given to 10 Americans between 18 and 40 years of age who “exemplify the best attributes of the nation’s young people.” Davidson will accept the award at the Jaycees’ 75th anniversary celebration in Seattle in June.

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competed in the Iron Shaker cocktail competition at Hog & Hominy restaurant in Memphis. They created an original cocktail using three of five secret ingredients and took second place.

’03 Clay Chapman is a financial advisor at Duncan-Williams Inc. in Memphis. Mary Katherine and Alex DeBardeleben have moved to her hometown of Meridian, MS, where he is a CPA with Swain & Collins P.A. Sean Gould joined Waddell & Associates Inc. as a wealth strategist. Joel Iglehart has a new bride and a new job. He married Casey Stone on June 2, 2012, and in August 2012 he started a new job with McKinsey & Company in Atlanta. Bunky Parr has returned to Memphis and is working at Kelman-Lazarov, a financial services firm. Brad Whiteside is now a manager at Pei Wei Asian Diner. 66

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’04 Paul Moinester, a senior legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, is one of 12 people selected for the 2014 class of the George J. Mitchell Scholars. This scholarship entitles recipients to a year of study in Ireland. As a Mitchell scholar beginning in September, he will study for a master’s degree in environmental resource management at University College Dublin. Lyle Muller is working on a doctorate in theoretical neuroscience at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Gif-surYvette, France. Scott Tashie and partners Arielle Moinester and Stephen Stamps have purchased the Cosmic Coconut, an organic juice bar and café, in Sanderlin Centre. They are considering opening a satellite operation in Overton Square.

’05 Sloan Abernathy graduated from Samford Law School in May 2012 and began a federal judicial clerkship in Little Rock, AR, in August.

Ryan Freebing began a new job at the Designory Inc. Nashville office in June 2012, working as their Infiniti-USA and global account executive. Dan Gibson is now business development specialist with Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. in Cincinnati, OH. Cooper Hopkins has moved to Birmingham, AL, where he is business manager at Tom Williams BMW/Mini. The Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council honors top performers in commercial real estate with its Pinnacle Awards. Jimbo Rainer was named Newcomer of the Year – the highest producing broker with no more than two years of experience in the industry. Rainer is an associate broker at Grubb & Ellis, Memphis. Sam Sawyer was recognized by D Magazine as one of the best real estate agents in Dallas for 2012, based on votes by clients and peers in the community. Warren Stafford is in his first year of law school at the University of Mississippi.

Aaron Struminger is pursuing his doctorate in biomechanics at the University of Delaware.

’06 Following his graduation from St. John’s College and working for a tutoring company in California, James Aiken has returned to Memphis and opened The Study (www. studymemphis.com). The Study specializes in professional academic tutoring as well as preparation for standardized tests. Collier Calandruccio attended a five-week course on architecture at Columbia University over the summer of 2012.

MUS Government Club. Both are involved in politics, but on opposite sides of the political landscape. Conaway, a Democrat, was recently director of field operations for Congressman Steve Cohen’s re-election campaign. Pendergrass, a Republican, is special assistant to the speaker at the Tennessee General Assembly. In a chapel presentation Friday, September 7, 2012, they spoke about their jobs, fielded questions, and encouraged students to get involved in the political process. Adrian Doggrell is a policy analyst for Energy Acuity in Denver, CO. Hugh Francis is starting his third year at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis. Taylor Maury is an account executive with Agency Services Inc. in Memphis. Derek Steiner is living in Los Angeles and working at Mandeville Films and Television at Walt Disney Studios. He is the assistant to Mandeville’s founder/president, David Hoberman.

Hayden Pendergrass, left, and Shea Conaway have been friends since their days in the

Dex Witte is a medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Paul Yacoubian is chairman of the board of GrowMemphis, a nonprofit that works with neighborhoods to promote community gardens and advocates food policy to local governments. Peter Zanca is in Washington, DC, where he is a strategic planning analyst at Accenture.

’07 Preston Battle interned with the Shelby County District Attorney General’s office, where he worked with prosecutors to develop case files for prosecution and assisted the General Sessions investigators. Elliott Cole is pursuing his master’s degree in public health at the University of Memphis. Breton Freebing graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a major in psychology and a minor in French. During the summer he completed six weeks of French language studies in Quebec City, Canada, at Bouchereau Lingua International, located just a few steps from the Chateau Frontenac, in the center of the city’s old town. He explored Quebec City, the Montmorency and Chaudière falls, and Montreal.

Emerging Leaders Tour Sears Crosstown When the derelict, 1.5 million-square-foot Sears Crosstown building does its phoenix-rising-fromthe-ashes act some time hence, members of the Emerging Leaders alumni group will remember a December 2012 tour of the Memphis landmark. The alumni gathered for lunch and a presentation on the massive renovation project by McLean Wilson ’96, vice president of Kemmons Wilson

Companies, and Dr. Todd Richardson, a University of Memphis assistant professor. Afterward, they toured the vacant building, with its thick-columned expanses recalling past glory — despite peeling paint, broken windows, littered floors, and defunct processing chutes. Once the thriving center of the Crosstown neighborhood, the building first opened in 1927 as

a catalog order center and retail store. It underwent several major additions over the years before the retail store closed in 1983, and the distribution center shut down in 1993. Wilson and Richardson, leading the development and consulting team of Crosstown LLC, said they envision not only renovating a building but revitalizing a neighborhood. The developers plan a mixed-use profile, encompassing residential, medical/wellness, academic, arts, office, and retail space. Crosstown LLC has received commitments from founding partners ALSAC, Church Health Center, Crosstown Arts, Gestalt Community Schools, Memphis Teacher Residency, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Rhodes College, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

McLean Wilson ’96 shows fellow alumni Buck Towner ’07, Derek Clenin ’03, and Paul Morrow ’06 around the Sears Crosstown building.

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Tyler Horn, a 6-foot-4, 300-pound center, agreed to terms on a practice squad contract with the Tennessee Titans. He was a two-year starter for the Miami Hurricanes and earned second-team All-ACC honors in the 2011 season. Austin Nauert is working toward a master’s degree in digital media management at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. Ragan Pitner spent the majority of the summer working in Africa for the U.S. Global Health Initiative helping tuberculosis patients, most of whom are also afflicted with AIDS. Pitner received his B.S. in biomedical engineering, and last fall he returned to Northwestern to complete the M.S. On his blog, http://ghanditchyfeet.tumblr.com/, he shares pictures and encounters from his summer abroad. Miles Tamboli, chef/owner of Miles to Go Homegrown Haute Cuisine & Artisan Breads, was featured in The Commercial Appeal “Go Memphis” section in July 2012. Read it at http://tinyurl.com/b8bud3h. Steven Thompson is employed with BB&T in Winston-Salem, NC. Ben Waller is in management training at

nexAir LLC in Memphis, working on projects related to technology integration in current operational processes.

Sam Goldstein has been promoted to partner integration and project management lead at GAIN Fitness in San Francisco.

McCauley Williams is a law student at the University of Mississippi.

Matt Haltom is in his first year of medical school at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.

’08 Paul Billings is working for Georgetown University’s Campus Outreach, a Christian ministry, while enrolled as a part-time seminary student. Daren Freebing graduated cum laude from DePaul University in June 2012. He holds a double major in accounting and finance and recently finished a four-month internship at Chicago’s PricewaterhouseCoopers in their taxation department. Watson George graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Furman University, where he played tennis for four years. George was presented the pre-med award and the biology award, and he was recognized as the Academic Achievement Outstanding Scholar Athlete. He was named to the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and began medical school at the University of Tennessee.

DeAndre Jones earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University, where he was on the dean’s list and the SEC Academic Honor Roll. He was awarded a Global Summer Fellows Grant and was selected as the Liberty Bowl Scholar Athlete and as the Vanderbilt Student-Athlete of the Month (November 2011). Jones was Vanderbilt’s male nominee for the 2012 H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete PostGraduate Scholarship, an award that has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league’s top male and female scholar-athletes. He is currently a consultant at Capgemini in Memphis. Stephen Maroda has accepted a job in the healthcare field with Huron Consulting Group in Houston, TX. Stuart McClure is working as an analyst for UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists, a multi-

Barnes Explores Ghana During Study Abroad Editor’s note: Daryan Barnes, a junior at Tufts University studying Political Science and Africana Studies, spent the fall semester participating in the Tufts-in-Ghana program. by Daryan Barnes ’10

When I tell people I spent a semester studying in Ghana, I get questions about tropical disease exposure, the exotic foods I ate, and how safe I felt during my stay. Some of the questions reveal preconceived notions about Africa – notions that seem to be stuck in 1899, along with Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness. I found Ghana to be a vibrant place, with a rich culture and great people. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Southern hospitality of my upbringing went a long way in Ghana’s communalistic society.

For the majority of my stay I was based in the capital, Accra, a busy metropolis that serves as the gateway to West Africa. The city is filled with markets, eateries, and shops, providing abundant opportunities to practice my bargaining skills. Accra’s location on the Gulf of Guinea coast gave me access to several miles of equatorial beaches, many of which are winter nesting sites for giant sea turtles. In Cape Coast, a few hours west of Accra, I had the chance to explore Elmina and Cape Coast castles, the departure point for millions of slaves who were sent to the British colonies from the 16th-19th centuries. Although both sites were incredibly somber, I appreciated the opportunity to glimpse my own history, to connect my American past with my African roots.

Daryan Barns is pictured on the roof of Elmina Castle, a Portuguese fort that later became one of the most important sites of departure for slaves bound to the New World. Below left: Fishing is an important industry and a way of life in the Southern coastal regions of Ghana. It is common to see teams of men dragging the boats ashore where women and children sort through the catch to sell in local markets.

William McGehee was featured in a cover story in The Anchor, the magazine of Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School. McGehee graduated in June from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and has taken a job with Smith & Williamson in London as a private client tax advisor. Jack Montgomery has taken a position in Boston with Altman Vilandrie & Company, a consulting firm focusing on the telecom, media, technology, and energy industries. Vance Montgomery is currently writing his biology thesis titled, “Frog Skin Permeability in the Smoky Mountains.” Nick Nash is studying law at the University of Miami School of Law. Michael Shoptaw is now working at the Nashville office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. Pfc. Drew Wiygul is serving in Operation Enduring Freedom with the U.S. Military (Army Stryker Division) in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. He is with the Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd infantry regiment. His duties include retrieving surveillance information and data from drones via a field laptop. He serves as an IED mine detection operator and as one of two designated snipers in his platoon. He recently received the Army Achievement Medal from the Secretary of the Army for exceptionally meritorious achievement while performing as an IED mine detection operator and grenadier; his tenacity and intelligence, which protected his squad and enabled the platoon’s success; and his dedication to duty. He says to tell everyone, “HOOAH!”

’09 Lowell Hays is finishing his final year at Vanderbilt University and plans to graduate in May. After graduation, he will be moving to Atlanta, GA, to work with Deloitte and Touche LLP in their strategy and operations consulting practice.

Mathew Jehl served as captain of the Rhodes College Mock Trial team that won the Downtown Invitational Classic in Brooklyn, New York, held in January. For his winning efforts and performance, Jehl garnered an “outstanding attorney” award. The Rhodes College A team won the nation’s most selective and prestigious mock trial tournament by defeating Furman University, University of Maryland, University of California – Berkeley, and the reigning national champion, Duke University. Jehl, who graduates in May with a degree in American political history, laid the groundwork for his mock trial technique at MUS, and he has continued competing for the last four years at Rhodes. His long-term plans include attaining a doctorate in history. “Regardless of what I end up doing, my experience with Mock Trial will be invaluable,” he said. “Being comfortable in front of a group of people will serve me well.”

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Graham Jones will graduate from the University of Mississippi this spring. He received the Griesbeck Scholarship in Accountancy, and he is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the university’s highest academic honor across all disciplines. He has accepted an internship with PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm in Dallas, TX.

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specialty pediatric practice solely focused on children’s health care.

Evan Mah has been selected editor-in-chief for The Wheel, Emory University’s campus newspaper. Robert Threlkeld is the current Honor Council president at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Ole Miss quarterback Barry Brunetti is competing for the starting position for the 2013 season.

Robert Vestal was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa at Washington and Lee University and was chosen as a Dana’s Angels Research Trust (DART) intern for summer 2012. DART is a summer research internship program developed at the university that aims to cure Niemann-Pick type C, a lysosomal storage disease. Vestal interned at the Brown/Goldstein Lab in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Daniel Clark finished his junior year at the University of Arkansas and is doing well in the Army ROTC program. George Curran is studying pre-med at Vanderbilt. He recently went on a medical mission trip to Honduras with other volunteers from the Nashville Mobile Market and the Vanderbilt Burn Center. Wade Laycook is pursuing his undergraduate degree in history at Harvard College, where he recently obtained membership to the Fly Club. Thomas Silas is working toward his double major in economics and accounting at Millsaps College. He says he stays busy juggling MUS TODAY

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Rivalry Revived–Lacrosse Alumni Join CBHS in Holiday Charity Tourney A chance to face off against Christian Brothers High School once more drew about two dozen alumni lacrosse players to CBHS over Thanksgiving. The sporting event also helped make the holidays merrier for needy children, as the price of admission was a donated toy for Toys for Tots. Pictured (front row, from left) Norfleet Abston ’10, John Stratton ’10, Kimbrough Taylor ’09, Franklin Martin ’10, Jason Daniel ’07, and Thomas Robinson ’00; (sitting in front) Buck Towner ’07; (back row, from left) Zak Eissler ’11, David Ruben ’09, Hudson Atkins ’08, Blake Hennessy ’11, Whit Tenent ’00, Kirby May ’94, Johnny Carson ’09, Ron Ansley ’97, John Rutledge ’09, Brandon Byrd ’07, and Rob Dickinson ’11. In the end the Buzzards were victorious, 8-3.

school and two campus jobs, but he is having a great time. Rocky Stone was initiated into the University of Alabama’s chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in April 2012. He was also selected as a recipient of a Faculty Excellence Award in Economics, based on his outstanding achievement in the field of economics.

’11 Forrest Baty, a sophomore accountancy major at the University of Mississippi, received the James W. Davis Scholarship in Accountancy. He is a member of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College and is on the dean’s honor roll. Alex Jarratt was named to the Rhodes College honor roll for the 2012 spring semester. To qualify for the honor roll, a student must be enrolled in at least 16 credit hours of academic work and must achieve a semester grade point average of 3.85 or higher.

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Anand Patel worked at New York Fashion Week where he enjoyed his time as a runway model. He also worked as a presidential campaign aide for President Barack Obama in Cleveland, OH, and at the second presidential debate. He attends Hofstra University in New York, majoring in public relations with psychology and Spanish minors. He said Hofstra recently hired him as a freelance photographer. Jianyin Roachell spent five weeks in

Shanghai over the summer of 2012, completing an internship with Lucite International in China. This opportunity allowed him to work with management and marketing officers. For the fall semester, he was back at the University of Tennessee, but he traveled to London for another internship during the spring semester. Billy Simco is studying geology at the University of Alabama, where he is the scholarship chair for his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. Scooter Taylor is hoping to see 12,000 students armed with 350,000 water balloons battle their way to one great cause this fall. That cause is Water Wars Atlanta, an event he is organizing with fellow Morehouse College student Jarrad Mandeville-Lawson to break the Guinness World Record for water-balloon fights while raising funds to provide clean, safe water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Learn more at www.waterwarsatlanta.com.

’12 Wil Hergenrader is a freshman industrial engineering student at Georgia Institute of Technology. He reports that Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is consistently ranked as the top industrial engineering program in the country. Drew Stevenson is studying finance at Southern Methodist University and is serving as a student senator.

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The Alumni Executive Board and Emerging Leaders gathered for a holiday party at the home of Jonny Ballinger ’87, AEB president. MUS TODAY

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HOMECOMING 2012 Homecoming festivities included a golf scramble, tennis round robin, and 8th Period, when alumni returned to school to sit in on classes.

Instructor in chemistry Analice Sowell, center, demonstrates an experiment for Baty Daniel ’15 and David Galloway ’82.

First-place golf team: David Forsythe ’99, Sean Bowie, Jacob Biddle, and Chip Campbell ’99 Second-place golf team: Harry Sayle ’92, Todd Watson ’92, Chuck Hamlett ’92, and Jason Saenger ’94

Mitchell Apollonio ’15 and Stephen Galloway ’82 heat up their experiment.

Third-place golf team: Joe Boals ’75, Courtnay Rudolph ’77, Bo Briggs ’74, and Lee Nichols ’79

Instructor in physics Wayne Mullins shares a lesson with Class of ’62 alumni, from left, Dan Copp, Jerry Bradfield, and Nat Ellis.

Fourth-place golf team: Ben Daniel ’86, Bo Allen ’86, Ned Laughlin ’94, Jess Ossorio ’78, and Wesley Grace ’86

Joe Lazarov ’82, Jim Burrow ’82, John Dunavant ’82, and Tom Hayes ’83

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Young alumni gathered December 12 for brunch and catching up with one another. Max Sheppard ’11 and James Davies ‘11 Andrew Millen ’08 and Laura Lawrence, instructor in science

Brian K. Smith, director of College Counseling, and Ross Warner ’12

Front row, from left, Max Sheppard ’11 and Xander Batey ’09; second row, William Cross ’11, Scooter Taylor ’11, Lee Downen ’12, Billy Simco ’11, Carson Smith ’11, J.P. DeVincenzo ’11, Michael Glenn ’11, and Jianyin Roachell ’11; back row, Jack Stukenborg ’12, Ross Warner ’12, Morgan Hunt ’12, Henry Dickinson ’11, Stephen Maroda ’08, Michael Cross ’08, Robert Duffey’09, Matt Grisham ’09, Clifton Jordan ’11, James Davies ’11, Andrew Millen ’08, and Ben Roberts ’11

MUS alumni attending Washington and Lee University gathered during a Parent’s Weekend party in November. Pictured from left are Mitchell Thompson ’10, Hank Hill ’10, Jackson Knight ’09, Robert Vestal ’09, and John Straton ’10. Jake Rudolph ’10 was missing in action at the time of the photo.

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The thunderstorms held off, but it’s likely even a few showers would not have dampened the spirits of supporters gathered to celebrate improvements to the lacrosse fields. Besides, any rainwater would have quickly drained away under the new artificial turf. Headmaster Ellis Haguewood thanked the lacrosse community for banding together to raise more than $630,000 for turf on Rogers Field and Gearhardt Field and a new scoreboard. More than 60 families contributed to the improvements, Haguewood said, including Brenda and Lester Crain, Barbara and Pitt Hyde ’61, Jimmy Sexton, Stephanie and Anthony Tancredi, and Debbie and Clif Phillips ’77. Shade Robinson, who served on the improvements fundraising committee, said many parents have gone above and beyond to support the lacrosse program, including committee members Chip Crain, Karen and Larry Klawinski, Robert Miller, and Missy and Jim Rainer ’77. She praised 20-year volunteer Coach Pat DiMento, who taught her boys, Fort ’13 and Trammel ’16, to play lacrosse when they were in the first and fourth grades.

“He has devoted countless hours to the MUS program,” she said. “He has coached our boys, guided our boys, fed our boys, and offered them a darn good spot to cast a line [in his pond],” she said. “And for that I will be forever grateful to Pat DiMento.” A separate committee raised an additional $25,000 to dedicate the Rogers Field storage building to DiMento as “Doc’s Shed.” The committee included Jimbo Rainer ’05 along with his mother, Missy, Emmel Golden ’97, Buck Towner ’07, Thomas Quinlen ’93, and Kyle Slatery ’04. In presenting the honor Jimbo Rainer thanked DiMento for two decades as a volunteer MUS coach and for promoting the game throughout Memphis. Accepting an honorary plaque, DiMento thanked his wife, Kristin, for supporting his passion for lacrosse. Then he pointed to the renovated Rogers Field and said, “This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” Senior Peyton Klawinski ’13 spoke about the swamp-like conditions that had plagued the fields: “You would shoot the ball, and it would become lodged in the ground. Running felt as if you were in quicksand,” he said.

“I want to thank everyone here who made these new facilities possible,” Klawinski said. “Your contributions will undoubtedly play a huge role in the future success of this program.” Haguewood presented a framed varsity letter to Coach Elliott Dent in honor of his 200th win for MUS, which came at the expense of Christian Brothers High School on May 3. Since he arrived in 1996, Dent has led MUS lacrosse teams to nine Division I TSLA championships. (Added to the 1990 championship, that makes 10 state titles for MUS lacrosse.) With his two young daughters at his side, the coach added his appreciation for all the parents, grandparents, and alumni who worked to improve the fields. In speaking about the placement of the “U” on Rogers Field, he said he wanted it running north to south so it would appear upright if viewed via Google Earth or from a plane flying overhead – or from even higher. “Hopefully, when God looks down He’ll see it upright,” Dent said. “It’s my way of saying thank you for all the things that He’s blessed us with.”

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Some of the many donors to this project: (from left) Jean Demere, David Porteous, Chesley Porteous, Bob Loeb ’73, Jacque Schwartz, Suzanne Preston, Rafi Schwartz, Anne Wilson, Drew Wilson, Karen Klawinski, Larry Klawinski, Ken Roberts, Lisa Roberts, Shade Robinson, Robert Miller, Chip Crain, Amy Crain, Trey Medlock, Missy Rainer, Tricia Medlock, and Jim Rainer ’77

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Coach Pat DiMento hugs Missy Rainer alongside Thomas Quinlen ’93, and Jimbo Rainer ’05. Lauren and Myron Boswell

Robert Miller, Remy Rea ’13, Jim Rainer ’77, and Dave Rea

Chip Crain, Drew Crain ’16, and Amy Crain

Emmel Golden ’97, Micah Brafford ’98, Thomas Robinson ’00, Coach Elliott Dent, Kirby May ’94, and Thomas Quinlen ’93

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